The Ugly Truth About The ADL

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by the Editors of
Executive InfeBigencei Review

Since the
First Printing:
ADL in Middle of
A Spy Scandal
Too Big to Bury

On January 15, eight days after the publica-
tion of the first edition of this book, The San Francisco
Chronicle shocked the public with the revelation that
the office of the ADL in San Francisco was at the center
of a scandal involving a San Francisco police officer and
a Bay Area art dealer/self-described private eye who were
suspected of selling illegally obtained information to
agents of the South African government.

The two men, Sgt. Tom Gerard of the San Francisco
Police Department, and Roy Bullock, a longtime paid
undercover operative for the local office of the Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL), had been undo:
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) scrutiny since

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1990, when federal agents discovered that secret Bureau
records on American black Muslims had been obtained
by South African spies.

The trail pointed to Bullock, who, in addition to his
fulltime paid work for the ADL, had been "moonlighting"
as an undercover snitch for the Bureau. On at least one
occasion, Bullock received a 1500 cash payment from
the FBI for infiltrating meetings of two Bay Area groups.

Bullock had access to confidential Bureau files, and
became a suspect when FBI files stowed up in the hands
of the South African government at the same time he
was regularly meeting with two South African spies and
passing confidential data to them. Bullock received cash
payments that eventually totaled over $16,000.

The early meetings between Bullock and the two
South African agents, identified as Humphries" and
"Louie,' included policeman Gerard. Later, Bullock
would meet with the South Africans alone. According to
one version of the Bullock-South Africa story, it was ADL
officials who put him in touch with the foreign agents.

Nearly three years later, that FBI probe of South
African spying has mushroomed into one of the biggest
espionage scandals in years. And the center of the scandal
has shifted from cops and art dealers to an alleged com-
mand center. The central target is how the ADL

On April 1, 1993, San Francisco Assistant District-
Attorney John Dwyer told reporters: "The ADL is the
target. Their involvement is just so great. People have
called this the Gerard case. Now, it's the ADL case. Ge-
rard is fust their guy in San Francisco. The ADL is doing
the same thing all over the country. There is evidence
that the ADL had police agents in other cities. The case
just gets bigger every day. The more we look, the more

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we find people involved."

The San Francisco probe soon proved that the pro-
file of the ADL contained in this book is right on the
mark.

Far from living up to its thoroughly undeserved and
self-promoted reputation, the Anti-Defamation League
has been caught by San Francisco police investigators:

• illegally spying on at least 950 political organiza-
tions, including the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Rainbow
Coalition, Greenpeace, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the
United Auto Workers, the Christie Institute, New Jewish
Agenda, Operation Rescue, the Liberty Lobby, the Nation
of Islam, the United Farm Workers, Act-Up, the American
Civil liberties Union, the National Lawyers Guild, the Bo
Gritz Presidential Campaign and the political movement
led by Lyndon LaRouche;

• infiltrating countless police and sheriff depart-
ments across the country, bribing police officers and
illegally obtaining classified government data on at least
20,000 American citizens;

• selling information on anti-apartheid groups to
agents of the South African government;

• passing surveillance and classified police data on
Arab-Americans to Israeli authorities who then used the
ADL data to illegally detain American citizens visiting
Israel;

• passing off Israeli intelligence propaganda as ADL-
generated research in an effort to sway American public
opinion and government policy, while never being
forced to register as foreign agents and while even en-
joying tax exempt status with the Internal Revenue Ser-
vice (IRS).

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A Nationwide Operation

The San Francisco district attorney and police investiga-
tors have concluded that the pattern of illegal spying
that they unearthed in California is a small part of a
nationwide spy operation run centrally out of the ADL's
national headquarters in New York City under the direct
tion of its "fact finding" director Irwin Suall.

In the San Francisco probe alone, police uncovered
evidence that the ADL had illegally penetrated 20 differ-
ent police agencies in California alone, and had also gained
access to classified police files in Chicago, St. Louis, At-
lanta, and a half dozen other cities across the country.

On April 8, 1993, San Francisco police released
nearly 800 pages of documents, providing previously
classified details of the ADL's nationwide criminal opera-
tions. Those documents were released as attachments to
a search warrant affidavit which police executed the
same day. In raids on the San Francisco and Los Angeles
offices of the ADL, police obtained "a mountain" of new
evidence of the spying and agent-provocateur operations
of the League.

The April 8 search warrant actions, which garnered
financial records and internal ADL correspondence be-
tween Suall and West Coast regional ADL officials, were
the second raids on ADL offices in four months. On Dec.
10, 1992, San Francisco police raided the San Francisco
and Los Angeles ADL offices, as well as the residences of
Bullock and Gerard.

Damage Control Fails

Shortly after the April raids and document disclosures,
the ADL launched what local San Francisco newspapers
labeled a massive "damage control" effort They sent out
several delegations of national officials from New York

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and Washington, D.C. to try to derail the probe. Leading
the delegations were: ADL National Chairman Melvin
Salberg, ADL Executive Director Abraham Foxman and
ADL General Counsel Barbara Wahl of the Washington,
D.C. law firm of Arent Fox.

In San Francisco, Richard Goldman, the city's chief
of protocol and a longtime ADL ally, was caught armtwist-
ing Chief of Police Tony Ribera into bringing the investi-
gation to a halt. Although the city's Police Commission
did bend to the ADL pressure and dropped its own probe
of the League's interference in local police operations,
district attorney Arlo Smith vowed to continue his crimi-
nal investigation despite the pressure, and subsequently
identified the ADL's national fact-finding director Suall as
a prime target.

In behind-closed-doors meetings with publishers,
editors, and reporters from The Los Angeles Times, the
ADL tried to silence the press through cajoling, armtwist-
ing and not-so-subtle allegations of anti-Semitism.

But the ADL-ruh Jewish weekly, Heritage Southwest
Jewish Press,more openly expressed the ADL's true feel-
ings about the probe. Publisher Herb Brin, just returned
from a trip to Belgrade, Serbia where he gave his un-
abashed editorial endorsement to the Serbian slaughter
of Bosnian Moslems and Croats, wrote on April 16:

"Lyndon LaRouche, from his federal prison cell,
must be gloating ... Calypso Gene Farrakhan is singing
away at the chagrin of ADL. These — among a host of
skinheads, pinkos and nuts — are dancing because San
Francisco cops are on ai vicious hunt to embarrass the
Anti-Defamation League for doing what ADL has always
done and must do to serve mankind — after Hitler.

"And the bastard decision by some idiotic editors
of The Los Angeles Times to play into the game — and

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Heritage will find out what prompted the malicious hunt
into the fact-finding efforts of ADL (better believe it!) -
speaks for itself as The Times played the trumped-up
'ADL investigated' story on Page One on 'Good Friday':
... Hardly a week passes that I don't supply Jewish de-
fense material to David Lehrer, head of ADL in this region
... A people must have the will and moxy to defend
themselves — and that, to me, is what ADL is all about
... The San Francisco police charge that ADL maintains
political intelligence operations in some seven U.S. cities.
In which case I say: Hooray for ADL!"

Brin, a promoter of the terrorist Jewish Defense
League, and gutter-level ADL snitch for 40 years, was
openly threatening revenge. Soon after Brin's diatribe,
some local news outlets experienced nastier treatment
than the name-calling directed against The Los Angeles
Times KPOO-FM, a local black community radio station
in the Bay Area, began receiving threatening calls after
they aired a series of interviews with victims of ADL
spying, "Jew-hating nigger," "nigger Nazi," and other simi-
lar epithets bombarded the station's phone lines.

In the past, these kinds of ADL hooligan tactics never
failed to work. This time, however, the sheer weight of
evidence has made this one scandal too big to bury.

By. late April, after police publicly released the in-
ventory of documents seized from the ADL, the League's
fact-finding director Irwin Suall hired a top criminal de-
fense lawyer in San Francisco, the clearest signal yet that
the ADL is shaking over the idea that at long last, they
have been caught in the act of being themselves.

Spying on Jews

David Gurvitz was unhappy about his pay from the ADL
As the League's chief fact-finder in their Los Angeles

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office, the 3 5 -year-old Gurvitz was married, with one
child and a second one on the way. His fulltime job at
the ADL paid him slightly more than $20,000 a year,
hardly enough to live on in a high-cost town like LA. So,
in June 1992, Gurvitz went to the Los Angeles Simon
Wiesenthal Center, another Jewish group involved in
monitoring the activities of so-called hate groups, to ask
them for a better-paying job.

But unfortunately the Wiesenthal Center already
had a fulltime staff researcher, Rick Eaton, and Gurvitz
was given the brushoff by Wiesenthal Center director
Rabbi Cooper.

Gurvitz's response to the job rejection was typical
ADL He staked out the Wiesenthal Center to get Eaton's
car license plate number and passed the plate number
to his ADL counterpart in San Francisco, Roy Bullock.
Gurvitz would later tell San Francisco police and FBI
investigators that Bullock was his "mentor."

Bullock contacted Sgt. Tom Gerard and had Gerafd
get Eaton's California Department of Motor Vehicles re-
cords.

The State of California has very strict laws prohib-
iting private citizens from possessing DMV records.
Those records contain photographs, addresses, Social
Security numbers, fingerprints, and other sensitive per-
sonal data. Unauthorized possession of even one DMV
record is a felony punishable by a stiff fine and a five-
year term in a California state prison. When Gurvitz got
Bullock and Gerard to obtain Eaton's DMV record, all
three were committing a serious state crime.

But when police raided the home/office of Roy Bul-
lock on Dec. 10 last year, they found far more than the
Eaton records. They found DMV records on more than
1,300 Californians in a computer spy base which in-

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eluded data on 12,000 individuals and 950 political
groups.

Among the files in the Bullock computer were the
DMV records of nearly one-third of the membership of
the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee
(A ADC), a nationwide Arab- American organization in-
volved in legitimate political activities. For years, leaders
and offices of the AADC had been the targets of threats
of violence.

In 1985, Jewish Defense League (JDL) terrorists
carried out bomb attacks against AADC offices in Santa
Ana, California, Washington, D.C., and Boston, Massachu-
setts. In the Santa Ana attack, regional director Alex Odeh
was killed. ADL agent Bullock has admitted to police
interviewers that he had infiltrated the AADC and person-
ally had a key to its Santa Ana office at the time of the
Odeh murder.

ADL-BATF Collusion

The Gurvitz-Bullock efforts against Eaton did not stop
with the illegal spying. Next, to intimidate Eaton, Gurvitz
asked Bollock to contact a leading member of the White
Aryan Resistance (WAR), a West Coast-based white su-
premacist organization. The WAR leader, whose ADL
codename was "Scumbag," is a convicted felon, and an
undercover agent provocateur on the payroll of the ADL
and the Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, To-
bacco and Firearms (BATF). "Scumbag" had been regu-
larly meeting with Bullock and San Francisco BATF
agents, providing inside information about WAR.
Through this channel, Bullock and the ADL apparently
maintained wiretaps on the WAR phone, codenaming
the effort "Operation Eavesdrop."
(The case of "Scumbag" opens the question of an-

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other level of criminal activity — receipt of federal confi-
dential records. BATF had offered to "share" the infiltra-
tor "Scumbag" if the ADL would pay informant fees-
some several hundred dollars a week. The money-for
"Scumbag" was approved by the ADL's chief fact-finder,
Irwin Suall, from the League's national headquarters in
New York City.)

So, when in the fall of 1992, Bullock contacted
"Scumbag" and gave him details about Rick Eaton's ef-
forts to infiltrate and spy on WAR, it was a textbook dirty
trick. Bullock hoped to enhance "Scumbag's" position
within the WAR group by having him expose the infiltra-
tor, Eaton. The ADL would gain greater hands-on control
over the group, through its own informant Bullock also
hoped that WAR might take some kind of action against
Eaton that would scare him into leaving his job with- the
Wiesenthal Center — opening the position for Gurvitz.

There was only one problem. Apparently unbe-
knownst to Bullock, the FBI was tapping his phone as
part of the South Africa espionage probe. His conversa-
tions with Gerard, Gurvitz, and "Scumbag" were all re-
corded.

The FBI had no choice but to warn Eaton at the
Wiesenthal Center about a possible physical attack
against him by WAR According to documents released
by the San Francisco police, the FBI could not rule out
an actual assassination attempt against Eaton.

FBI agents also went to the Los Angeles ADL office
in October 1992 to alert them to the Gurvitz-Bullock
dirty trick. The ADL response was striking. Gurvitz was
fired on the spot, despite his family financial problems
and pregnant wife. Only employed by the ADL for four
years, Gurvitz was expendable.
Bullock, however, a 40-year employee of the ADL,

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was too valuable to fire. At that very moment, Bullock
(just caught running a possible assassination through
White Aryan Resistance) was in Germany as part of a
high-level ADL delegation meeting with government of-
ficials and top German law enforcement to peddle their
credentials as "experts" on extremist groups. Bullock
personally met with the head of the German Constitu-
tional Protection Office (BfV), Germany's equivalent of
the FBI, to receive and pass on information about U.S.
skinhead and neo-Nazi activities. Needless to say, Bullock
did not report on his own role in ranning agents provoca-
teurs inside those circles.

When Bullock did return to San Francisco and the
prospect of being dumped for his antics with WAR, he
did not lose his job. Irwin Suall, the chief dirty-trickster
for the ADL; his Washington, D.C. aide, Mira Lansky Bo-
land; David Lehrer, the head of the ADL's Los Angeles
office; and Rick Hirschhaut, the leagues San Francisco
director, all threatened to quit on the spot if any action
were taken against Bullock. Suall even wrote a memo
which police uncovered in their searches of the San
Francisco ADL office, lauding Bullock as the ADL's "num-
ber one investigator."

The impromptu rally in support of Bullock by top
ADL officials speaks volumes about the real nature of the
ADL Bullock's dirty tricks with WAR were not restricted
to the targeting of Eaton. Bullock regularly tried to re-
cruit white supremacists, KKKers, and otters from the
radical racist right to join AADC and other Arab-Ameri-
can groups, in order to later "expose" those groups for
their alleged anti-Semitic ties.

Eaton wasn't the only Jewish activist targetted by
the ADL. Stewart Alpert, a national leader of the New
Jewish Agenda, and other members of the group were

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ADL targets. Vera Katz, the mayor of Portland, Oregon,
who lived for years on a kibbutz in Israel, discovered
that her sister city program was spied upon by the ADL

A Dilemma for the FBI

Shortly after the Eaton affair, the FBI asked the San Fran-
cisco Police to take charge of the probe 6f Bullock and
Gerard. Once the investigation had turned into a probe
of the ADL, the Bureau ran up against a very embarrassing
dilemma.

Most serious was the record of FBI collusion with
the ADL On Feb. 4, 1985, then FBI Director William
Webster wrote a priority cable to the special agents in
charge of the FBI's 25 largest field offices, ordering them,
to establish permanent local liaison to the ADL The
Webster order coincided with a major effort by the ADL
to solicit a federal prosecution of Lyndon LaRouche, a
longstanding target of ADL spying and dirty tricks.

Ironically, this FBI order came precisely when the
"Jewish underground," which FBI Director Webster later
identified as the number-one terrorist threat in the
United States, was on a terrorist spree that covered New
York, New Jersey, and California. Terrorist activities had
left two people dead, including Alex Odeh, the Arab-
American leader.

By Dec. 10, 1986, documents obtained under the
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) show ADL National
Director Nathan Perlmutter, writing to Webster, to work
details for the ADL to give annual training lectures at the
FBI Academy in Quantico, Va. on "hate crimes."

On Nov. 21, 1989, Thomas F. Jones, deputy assistant
director of the FBI in charge of the criminal investiga-
tions division wrote to Irwin Suall to invite Suall and his

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ADL associates, Allan Schwartz and Michael Lieberman,
to lecture the top 50 FBI agents on "civil rights law."

The marriage between the FBI and the ADL since
February 1985 raises serious questions of legality. Was
the ADL handed authority to run a revised "parallel
COINTELPRO program" after the US. Congress had es-
sentially outlawed the FBI's spying on non-criminal polit-
ical groups in 1975? The ADL's intimate ties to the Trea-
sury Department's BATF ring similar alarm bells. When
the San Francisco ADL office was caught in possession
of dozens of police intelligence reports on "skinheads"
prepared by the Portland police, ADL Northwest Re-
gional Director Marvin Stern told reporter Phil Stanford
that perhaps the files show ADL's "work for the gov-
ernment."

Under the Reagan administration's Executive Order
12333, which spelled out guidelines for domestic and
foreign spying, the FBI was given broad latitude to use
non-government personnel as "assets."

No wonder the FBI dropped the probe of Bullock-
Gerard on the grounds that it might jeopardize FBI Se-
crets, methods, and procedures !

Local Probe, National Target

With the Bullock-Gerard case in its hands, the San Fran-
cisco police launched an ambitious investigation late last
year under the supervision of Captain John Wiilett, head
of the Special Investigations Division.

In November 1992, shorty after being interviewed
by the FBI, Tom Gerard fled to th Philippines, which
has no extradition treaty with the United States. From
his retreat on a remote Filipino island, Gerard formally
submitted his resignation from the SFPD. Ironically, Ge-
rard's last assignment was in the SID offices.

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On Jan. 22, 1993, Gerard told The San Francisco
Examiner (from the Phillipines) that he had first met
Bullock at the San Francisco ADL office in 1985: "We sat
there one morning with everyone in the (ADL) office,
shook hands and made friends." Gerard freely admitted
he funnelled classified police data to Bullock with the
full understanding that it was for the ADL The guy
(Bullock) had no criminal record. It's like we're talking
to someone in the neighborhood community watch or-
ganization."

Gerarad just returned to the San Francisco Police
Department after a two-year leave of absence in which
he worked for the CIA, ostensibly as a bomb expert.
According to documents and interviews, Gerard's CIA
assignments included El Salvador, Afghanistan and a co-
vert operation targeted at the African nation of Ghana.
On his return to the police department, Gerard fre-
quently boasted to his colleagues that he was also work-
ing closely with the Israeli Mossad In retrospect, the
references to Mossad may have been based on his bud-
ding relationship with the ADL
Gerard's work for. the ADL did not go unrewarded.

In May 1991, Gerard was one of eleven police offi-
cers from across the country who traveled to Israel on
an all-expenses-paid ADL junket The group's escort was
Mira Lansky Boland, the ADL's Washington, D.C. fact-
finder who personally put the delegation together. Sgt.
Tim Carroll, a detective with the San Diego County Sher-
iffs Department, described the journey as a payment for
services already rendered to the ADL "A lot of it was for
past work or relationship with the ADL and kind of an
emotional thing that we spread the word when we get
back... "

Police officers from Boston, Washington, Mobile,

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Dallas, Maryland, Virginia, and Georgia also went along
on the junket, which featured meetings with senior Is-
raeli police, military, and intelligence officials.

One junket participants Donald Moore, was subse-
quently indicted on kidnapping conspiracy charges,
when, on behalf of the Cult Awareness Network (CAN),
he joined in a plot to kidnap a du Pont family heir, Lewis
du Pont Smith, a close associate of Lyndon LaRouche.
When Moore was arraigned in late September 1992, his
attorney, Mark Rasch, was from the ADL's law firm. Mira
Lansky, Boland was in court throughout most of the
trial.

In taped conversations with;the FBI's undercover
informant inside the kidnap conspiracy, Moore boasted
that he had worked closely with the ADL against
LaRouche and that as a deputy sheriff in Loudoun County,
Va. he had conducted illegal wiretaps, breaking and other
crimes against the LaRouche group. Though Moore was
acquitted, his codefendant, Galen Kelly, was convicted
of federal kidnapping charges in May 1993.

FBI Files on Nation of Islam

The hostess of the May 1991 Israel trip, Mira Lansky
Boland, may face criminal charges for illegal possession
of a classified FBI intelligence report on the Nation of
Islam (NOI), a legitimate political group. The ADL's Gur-
vitz told FBI and SFPD investigators that he personally
sent copies of the FBI document to Boland after he re-
trieved it from the ADL's Los Angeles office files.

Lansky Boland had put out a request to all ADL
offices for information on the Nation of Islam, as part of
an ADL propaganda drive against the group. The FBI
internal criminal investigation report, a 35 -page docu-
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to the ADL after the FBI apparently closed the probe
without indicting anyone in the NOL But the ADL used
the classified report to block the NOI's activities, espe-
cially the Dopebusters program, which had successfully
bid for contracts to provide security for public housing
authorities across the country.

Bullock may have passed the NOI file on to his South
African spy friends.

Lansky Boland could also emerge as a pivotal figure
in a renewed probe of the Jonathan Jay Pollard spy scandal.
A graduate school classmate of Pollard's at a special na-
tional security studies program at the Fletcher School of
Diplomacy, Lansky Boland was placed in a job with the
CIA at the same time Pollard went to work for a Naval
Intelligence unit Both Pollard and Lansky Boland were
proteges of the Fletcher program director, Dr. Uri Ra'anan.
Ra'anan was aformer Israeli intelligence officer who in the
1960s set up an Israeli spy unit at the national headquar-
ters of B'nai B'rith, the parent organization of the ADL

Pollard, according to a story published in the May
11, 1993 Village Voice, has written to friends that a top
official of the ADL playqd a central role in his espionage
activities for Israel (and the Soviet Union).

Inside the ADL Files

In April 1992, following the second search of ADL offices,
the San Francisco police released some of the spy docu-
ments to the public.

The inventory included a computerized list of
groups, with the data base broken down into five catego-
ries: "pinko," "right," "ANC" (for African National Con-
gress, a South African group that Bullock was spying on
for the South African government and the ADL), "Arab"
and "skinhead"

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Since the ADL had long paraded itself as the antidote
to right-wing extremist and "hate groups," it was a shock-
ing revelation for many long-duped collaborators of ADL
that the majority of the 950 groups under ADL surveil-
lance were left-wing, liberal, ethnic, human rights, gay,
and labor groups. Leading members of the U.S. Congress
including Ron Dellums, Paul McCloskey, and Nancy Pel-
ozi, as well as Sen. Allan Cranston, had been spied on by
the ADL, according to files seized by the police.

African National Congress leader Chris Hani, who
was assassinated in April 1993, was a target of ADL sur-
veillance during several trips to California.

The Christie Institute, which filed a spring 1986
lawsuit against Oliver North, Richard Secord, and others
involved in the then-unknown Iran-Contra operations,
was surveiiled and infiltrated by the ADL Roy Bullock
stole trash from Christie's San Francisco offices and filed
detailed reports with the San Francisco ADL, listing bank
accounts, personnel data and other sensitive infor-
mation.

Chip Berlet and Russ Belant, two left-wing "re-
searchers" who worked closely with the ADL for years in
efforts to foist Justice Department frameups of LaRouche
and his associates, were reportedly shocked when, in a
1986 meeting at ADL headquarters with Irwin Suall, they
were told the ADL had detailed files on them. However,
from 1986 till as late as 1991, Berlet continued to closely
collaborate with the ADL

Henry Schwartzchild, a former ADL employee, con-
firmed to San Francisco Weekly that the ADL had spied
on Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. "They thought King was
sort of a loose cannon. He was a Baptist preacher and
nobody could be quite sure what he would do next. The
ADL was very anxious about having an unguided missile

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out there." The NAACP was another prime target of ADL
espionage and disruption.

Wilbert Tatum, publisher of New York City's Am-
sterdam News, captured the sense of betrayal in the black
community in the first of a series of front-page editorials
on the San Francisco spy case on April 24: "There can be
no question that the shocking allegation that the Anti-
Defamation League has been spying for years on organiza-
tions such as the NAACP, New Alliance Party, Ku Klux
Klan, Greenpeace, the Arab-American Anti-Discrimina-
tion Committee, the Black United Fund, Operation Res-
cue, the board of directors of public television station
KQUE, the San Francisco Bay Guardian newspaper, at
least 12,000 individuals nationwide, and still counting,
as well as organizations and individuals yet to be named
in New York and the East Coast, leaves us numbed and
chilled....

"For while it was serving as a model, by all accounts
available to us, it was spying on organizations that it was
ostensibly helping. Organizations such as the NAACP
welcomed this help... They were welcomed into our
organizations and into our lives: It is unthinkable to
suggest that these 'friends' have betrayed us, as well
as so many more. Yet, the investigations by competent
authorities in Los Angeles and San Francisco suggest that
they have done precisely that, up to and including selling
illegally gathered information on organizations and indi-
viduals to the apartheid government of South Africa."

San Francisco Assistant District Attorney John Dwyer
also revealed that Arab-Americans were not only being
spied upon by the ADL At a court hearing in February, he
revealed that one Arab-American whose name appeared
in Bullock's computer dossiers had been arrested by Is-
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was detained when he arrived in Israel to visit relatives on
Jan. 25, 1993. He was held for days before the American
embassy was even informed of his arrest.

The DA's office later acknowledged that authorities
found foreign government (believed to be from Israel)
files on Americans. One Bay Area Middle East peace
activist, Jeffery Blankfort, was tracked in the foreign gov-
ernment files throughout an entire tour of the Middle
East and North Africa.

A New York City ADL agent, Yehudit Barsky, who
worked directly under Suall, regularly received Israeli
police dossiers on Arab activists from the Israeli embassy,
according to former American Israel Public Affairs Com-
mittee (AIPAC) researcher Gregory Slabodkin.

In February, when Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak
Rabin came to Washington for the first official meeting
with President Clinton, Israeli Defense Force officials
admitted that they planted intelligence data in the ADL,
which the ADL would then release as its "research."

In Chicago, the ADL's regular spy routine against
Arab-Americans, according to writer Robert Friedman,
was to conduct video-surveilance of funerals of Chicago-
area Arabs, and then give the videos to the Israeli govern-
ment. Arab-Americans visiting relatives in Israel and the
Israeli occupied territories would be taken into Israeli
custody and shown the videos as an intimidation tactic.

The Money Trail

In interviews with both the FBI and the San Francisco
police, Roy Bullock freely admitted that he was a full-
time employee for the ADL He received $550 a week
plus expenses, he had a desk at the ADL's San Francisco
office, and was one of only three people with access to
the secret files maintained at the ADL's office.

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Yet, when police reviewed ADL financial records
seized in the Dec. 10 raids, there was no mention of
Bullock as an ADL employee. California tax filings also
showed no mention of Bullock.

Police eventually uncovered a paper trail involving
a prominent Los Angeles tax lawyer, political fixer, and
ADL official who systematically concealed Bullock's ties
to the ADL.

The attorney, Bruce Hochman, was for years the
regional president, and is still today national vice presi-
dent of the ADL Hochman admitted to San Francisco
police investigators that, beginning in 1960, he would
receive checks from the ADL, deposit them in an account
and issue cashiers checks to Bullock. The scheme en-
abled the ADL to avoid payroll taxes, workmen's com-
pensation and other pay-outs. This scheme's illegality
should have been obvious to Hochman, who is one of
the West Coast's leading tax attorneys. Hochman is also
one of an elite among California lawyers which hand-
picks nominees for federal judgeships.

One of Hochman's proteges, federal immigration
Judge Bruce J. Einhorn, who chairs the Los Angeles ADL
civil rights committee, is currently at the center of a con-
troversy stemming from his refusal to recuse himself from
the "Los Angeles 8" case, involving seven Palestinians and
a Kenyan who are being charged with membership in an
Arab terrorist group and are targeted for deportation.
Back in 1987, when the eight were first arrested, ADL Re-
gional Director David Lehrer publicly boasted that the
case was based on data provided to the FBI by the ADL.
Today, however, ADL computer spy files naming these 8
defendants open a new scandal about Einhorn's bias.

Although San Francisco investigators say that Hoch-
man is not a target of their probe, evidence was released

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showing over $160,000 in payments by Hochman to
Bullock in recent years. San Francisco D.A. Arlo Smith
told reporters that the ADL could be prosecuted on 48
separate felony counts simply for their illegal financial
transactions with Bullock.

Money for the ADL's covert "fact-finding" on the
West Coast was handled through a covert bank account
maintained in the name "L. Patterson" at several Los
Angeles banks. Those accounts were maintained by re-
gional director David Lehrer. All of the money was ini-
tially provided by the ADL national headquarters in New
York, according to San Francisco investigators. The
money trail established through documents seized in the
December and April raids has prompted investigators to
conclude that the league's dirty tricks operations nation-
wide are micro-managed from ADL headquarters by Suall
and his chief deputies, including Lansky Boland.

Civil Suits Pending

San Francisco prosecutors have already handed down
one indictment in the ongoing ADL spy probe. On May
6, Tom Gerard returned to San Francisco from his Philip-
pines hide-out and was immediately arrested and
charged with five California state felonies. Now released
on 120,000 bond, Gerard has been told by prosecutors
that he can avoid a jail sentence if he agrees to cooperate.
Prosecutors described Gerard and even Bullock as mere
"cogs" in the ADL spy machinery. "Look at the top, at the
organizational setup, at the fact finders," a source inside
the investigation told The San Francisco Examiner on
May 11.

District Attorney Smith has said the remaining in-
dictments will be handed down by June 15.

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In the meantime, the ADL has also been served with
a class action lawsuit in California state court by a group
of Calif ornians, including Yigal Arens, the son of the
former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens, and Helen
Hooper McCloskey, the wife of die former Congressman.
The suit charges the ADL with illegal spying and viola-
tions of the civil rights of a class of California citizens
targeted because of their political beliefs. Three employ-
ees of Executive Intelligence Review magazine from Cali-
fornia have also joined the suit, which is expected to
result in extensive additional disclosures of the ADL's
illegal spy activities.

With evidence mounting and criminal charges
pending against the ADL for foreign espionage, domestic
spying and financial fraud, many are asking: How long
will the ADL manage to retain its tax-exempt status with
the IRS? To maintain tax-exempt status a group cannot
engage in any kind of direct political campaign activity
and cannot serve as an agent of a foreign government.
The ADL has been caught doing both.

In police interviews, David Gurvitz revealed that
the ADL ran an army of undercover agents across the
country. In Chicago, the ADL had undercover informants
code-named "Chi 1-2-3," at least one of whom was a local
police officer; in St. Louis, ADL ran "Ironsides;" in Atlanta,
an Arab-speaking ADL spy was code-named "Flipper."
Elsewhere in California, ADL ran "Scout"

While at first, only the Portland, Oregon district
attorney and the Chicago Police Review Board formally
announced that they will investigate the ADL spying, as
this book goes to print other official government bodies
are following the leads.

The ADL Command Structure

National Commission

Sen. Howard
Metzenbaum

Max Kampelman
Rep Sidney R. Yates

Former Sen.
Rudy Boschwitz

Meyer E.senberg (Ex Asst GC SEC)
Murray Janus (Richmond, Va.)
Irving Shapiro

Burton Joseph (Minneapolis gram cartel)

Justin Finger

Theodore Silbert (Sterling National Bank)

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ADL Foundation

ADL staff

Mira Lanshy Boland
3 1 regional offices
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Irwin Suall

Major Donors

Robert 0 Anderson (Atlantic Richfield)

Dwayne Andreas
(ADM)

J David Barnes (Mellon Bank)

Roger E Birk (Merrill Lynch)

Edgar Bronfman (Seagrams)

Charles L Brown (AT&T)

Willard Butcher (Chase Manhattan)

Alvah Chapman (Miami Herald Publishing Co )

Peter A Cohen (Shearson American Express)

Lester Crown (Material Services Corp.)

Justin Dart (Dart Industries) t

Marvin Davis (20th Century Fox)

Randolph Hearst (Hearst)

Samuel Higgmbottom (Rolls Royce)

Amory Houghton. Jr. (Corning Glass)

Stephen Kay (Goldman Sachs)
Donald Keough (Coca Cola)

Lane Kirkland
(AFLCIO)

John Kluge (MetroMedia)

Ralph Lazarus (Federated)

John Loeb (Shearson Loeb Rhoades)

J. Willard Marriott (Marriott Corp.)

Paul Miller (First Boston Corp.)

Franklin Murphy (Times Mirror)

Andrall Pearson (Pepsico)

Lester Pollack (United Brands)

Victor Posner (Sharon Steel)

Abram Pr.tzker (Hyatt)

James D Robinson (Amex)

Steven Ross (Warner Communications)

William Schreyer (Merrill Lynch)

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger (New York Times)

Alfred Taubman (Taubman Corp.)

S.P. Thomas (Sears Roebuck)

Robert Van Fossan (Mutual Benefit)

Gordon Wall is (Irving Trust)

John Welch (GE)

EIRNS/L Hecht

Canon Edward N. West of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John
the Divine in New York City.

Introduction
The Canon Spills
the Beans

It was December 9, 1978. The cold New
York City winter was made worse by the damp and
spooky setting in which the two undercover investiga-
tors found themselves. They were sitting in the cavern-
ous basement study of the Cathedral of St. John the
Divine, interviewing Canon Edward West, a senior offi-
cial of the secretive Sovereign Military and Hospitaller
Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights of Malta. They
had come to ask the Canon about Lyndon LaRouche, the
by-then well-known economist and political figure, who
had been the recent target of an assassination threat by
the Order and some of its agents, including Manhattan
District Attorney Robert Morgenthau.

Details of the threat had been published in a thirty-
page report issued by LaRouche's associates earlier in the

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year, and LaRouche's U.S. Labor Party had more recently
issued a book-length expose of the international drug
trade, highlighting Britain's role in a new opium war
directed against the United States. As a top official of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in America, and as a leading
Knight of Malta, Canon West was well aware of the
LaRouche-commissioned exposes.

After a half-hour of chatter about other, subjects,
interrupted by a brief photo session memorializing the
interview, the investigators brought the discussion
around to LaRouche and the potential problems he and
his organization posed to the Anglo-American establish-
ment and their secret societies.

The Canon's response to the inquisitive visitors star-
tled them.

In a cold, ruthless tone, the Canon stated confi-
dently: "We will not get directly involved. We will have
our Jewish friends at the Anti-Defamation League deal
with Mr. LaRouche and his organisation."

Canon West's threat proved prophetic. Already, dur-
ing the summer of 1978, the ADL, in league with the
British Fabian Society-sponsored Heritage Foundation,
had published a broadside attack against Lyndon
LaRouche as an "anti-Semite." The ADL was well aware
of LaRouche's efforts beginning in 1975 to bring about
a peaceful solution to the Middle East crisis by designing
and lobbying internationally for a regional economic
development program that would improve the lives of
Jews and Arabs alike. LaRouche had traveled to Baghdad,
Iraq and had also conferred with senior Israeli govern-
ment officials about his peace plan. The ADL knew that
the characterization of LaRouche as an "anti-Semite" was
absurdly libelous.

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3

Nevertheless, the ADL's campaign to smear and
eventually destroy LaRouche and his movement esca-
lated dramatically over the winter of 1978-79, and has
continued ever since at a cost of tens of millions of
dollars.

The bizarre reference to the nominally Jewish civil
rights group by Episcopal Canon West, with his pivotal
role in the secret British Freemasonic movement in
America, naturally prompted a more serious inquiry by
LaRouche's associates into the ADL, especially following
the sudden burst of ADL venom during the summer of
1978.

What that investigation revealed was as shocking as
the initial comments by Canon West about "our Jewish
friends." Not only is the ADL emphatically not a Jewish
civil rights lobby; the ADL, and its parent agency, B'nai
B'rith, have been, from their inception, arms of the Brit-
ish secret intelligence agencies and secret societies that
are sworn enemies of the United States. The B'nai B'rith
and the ADL have used their nominal Jewishness to con-
ceal their actual allegiance and agenda.

The early history of B'nai B'rith is part of one of the
ugliest chapters in the British-led Confederate secession-
ist insurrection against the Union in the 19th century.
The ADL is more closely aligned with the racist Ku Klux
Klan than with Judaism; more closely aligned with the
murderous Medellin Cocaine Cartel than with any civic
group. As the financial and political institutions of the
United States have fallen deeper and deeper into the grip
of illegal drug money, the visibility and power of the ADL
has grown. Today, they are at the very center of the
corruption of our most cherished institutions: our
schools, our courts, and our elected officials.

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This little book is by no means a comprehensive
profile of the B'nai B'rith and the ADL. Such a serious
history would require volumes. It is written in order to
give you, the reader, a brief glimpse of the ugly truth
about the "ADL: They are a bunch of racist thugs who
push drugs.

Scottish Rite Freemason and Ku Klux Klan founder Confederate
Gen. Albert Pike's statue in Washington, D.C.'s Judiciary Square.

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150 Years of Perfidy

April 14,1865, the day President Abraham
Lincoln was shot, will live forever as a day of infamy for
American patriots and lovers of freedom all over file
world But for the leadership of the Order of B'nai B'rith
and its 20th-century secret police arm, the Anti-Defama-
tion League, April 14, 1865 is a day that will be long
remembered for a very different reason. The B'nai B'rith,
a pivotal player in the British Freemasonic plot to destroy
the Union, was implicated in Lincoln's assassination! That
fact does not square very well with its long-cultivated,
but totally unwarranted reputation as a Jewish social
service organization and a champion of civil rights. For
that reason, B'nai B'rith and the ADL have gone to great
lengths to bury that history.

Simon Wolf (1835-1923) was the Washington, DC.

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lawyer for the Order of B'nai B'rith during the entire
period of the U.S. Civil War. He would later head the
International Order of B'nai B'rith for many years, in
1862, Wolf was arrested by LaFayette C. Baker, the chief
of detectives for the city of Washington, D.C., and later
Lincoln's chief of the U.S. Secret Service, on charges that
Wolf was involved in spying and blockade running on
behalf of the Confederacy. Baker arrested Wolf, who was
the attorney representing a number of Jews accused of
spying for the South, on the grounds that he was part of
a "conspiratorial organization" working on behalf of the
secessionist cause behind the lines in the nation's capital.
The conspiratorial organization named by Baker was the
B'nai B'rith!

Both Baker and U.S. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant targeted
the Order of B'nai B'rith as a Confederate spy agency.
Upon taking command of the Western Front in 1862,
General Grant issued Order No. 11, which,expelled all
Jews from the military district within 24 hours of its
implementation. U.S. Grant was no anti-Semite. He was
reacting to the activities of B'nai B'rith and leading Con-
federates like Judah P. Benjamin. Lincoln, however, cog-
nizant of the need to avoid blanket attacks against reli-
gious or ethnic groups, rescinded the order.

A 1987 B'nai B'rith authorized biography of Simon
Wolf by Esther L. Panitz offered the following highly
suggestive, albeit incomplete description of Wolfs per-
sonal relationship with President Lincoln's assassin, John
Wilkes Booth. Bear in mind that this biography, written
on the basis of B'nai B'rith's archives, paints Wolf the
most favorable of lights. The mere fact that the author
had to include Wolfs links to Booth and Wolfs earlier

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9

arrest as an alleged Confederate spy and blockade run-
ner, implies that the actual story is far uglier: .

"Wolfs concern for culture first expressed itself in the
formation of a private club, devoted to the arts and
humanities and frequented by young men avid for learn-
ing: ... Were pride and ambition his only motives in
seeking the intellectual life? Clearly, Wolf hoped that if he
and his friends would devote themselves to the pursuit of
learning, they would deflect the prejudicial statements
of their Christian neighbors. Wolf was upset that terms
such as 'money-changers,' 'cotton traders,' and 'clothes
dealers' had become words of reproach....

"Locally, the group's theatrical productions re-
ceived a good press. Wolf, who would often play the
Ghost in Hamlet or Shylock in The Merchant of Venice,
bore an uncanny resemblance to John Wilkes Booth,
Lincoln's assassin. Earlier in Cleveland, Booth had joined
Wolf and Peixotto in dramatic performances. Years after-
ward, Wolf remembered that he had met Booth once
again at the Willard Hotel, on the morning of the day
Lincoln was shot. There, at the bar, Booth explained that
Senator John P. Hale's daughter had just rejected his
marriage proposal. Wolf attributed Lincoln's murder to
this personal tragedy in Booth's own life.... Wolf also
recalled that once he sat for a picture entitled 'The Assas-
sination of President Lincoln.'"

In his own book, Presidents I Have Known, Wolf
says that he and his longtime acquaintance John Wilkes
Booth did some drinking together at the Willard Hotel
on the day Booth shot Lincoln.

Wolfs, and a second leading B'nai B'rith figure, Ben-
jamin Peixotto's, dealings with John Wilkes Booth were
hardly cultural. Nor could Wolf have possibly believed
that Abraham Lincoln was killed became of John Wilkes

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Booth's unrequited love affair. Even John Hinckley, the
would-be assassin of President Ronald Reagan was de-
clared insane when he tried to peddle the line that he
had tried to kill Ronald Reagan due to an unfulfilled
fantasy love affair with actress Jodie Foster.

To understand the circumstances under which B'nai
B'rith's Washington, D.C. leader and one of its founding
members were circumstantially tied to the Lincoln assas-
sination conspiracy, and explicitly linked to the seces-
sionist insurrection against the Union, it is necessary to
look briefly at the circumstances under which the Order
of B'nai B'rith was founded in 1843.

Britain's Reconquest Dream

Following the American Revolution, the British monar-
chy and its East India Company colonialist apparatus
never for a moment abandoned their commitment to
reconquer the lost colonies in North America. Although
the military effort at reconquest in the War of 1812
foiled, other efforts to seed the United States with British
agents, some drawn from the ranks of anti-republican
Tories who were permitted to retain their citizenship
and property in America under the terms of the Treaty
of Paris of 1783, were more successful.

In 1801, the Tory faction of U.S. Freemasonry — the
grouping of Freemasons who had sided with England
during the American Revolution — opened up shop as
the "Grand Council of the Princes of Jerusalem of the
Mother Supreme Council of the Knights Commander of
the House of the Temple of Solomon of the Thirty-third
Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Order of the Scot-
tish Rite of Freemasonry in the United States." This US-
based British Freemasonic lodge was chartered in

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Charleston, S.C. The members of this British-led secret
society would direct the Confederate secessionist insur-
rection a half-century later. Other Scottish Rite members
would-be among the founders of the B'nai B'rith. They,
too, would be leading Confederates.

Apart from the esoteric mission of spreading an
explicitly anti-Christian form of Roman pagan worship
and occultism among the early generations of American
citizens, the Charleston lodge also sought to build up a
network of pro-British merchants, spies and politicians
in both the North and the South, who would one day
play a pivotal role in the reconquest. Many of these early
Masons became wealthy through their business dealings
with the British East India Company and the Dutch West
India Company, in both the cotton and the slave trade.

Among the founding members of the Charleston
Scottish Rite Lodge were many prominent Jews, includ-
ing Isaac DaCosta, Moses Cohen, Israel De Lieben, Dr.
Isaac Held, Moses Levi, and Moses Peixotto. Many of
these men were Sephardic Jews from North Africa or
from Spain who had originally settled in the Caribbean
and engaged in the early slave trade. These Jewish Ma-
sons set up other organizations which also maintained
active liaison to Great Britain's powerful Jewish commu-
nity. The Hebrew Orphan Aid Society was one such
nominally benign group that would produce one of the
most rabid secessionist leaders, Judah P. Benjamin,
Although today, any reports of the Freemasonic
roots and structure of B'nai B'rith are usually greeted
with a torrent of allegations of "anti-Semitism," back in
the formative years, B'nai B'rith' s own magazine The Me-
norah offered the following information about the
founders of the group:

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"Their reunions were frequent and several of them being
members of existing benevolent societies, especially the
order of Free Masons and Odd Fellows, they finally con-
cluded that a somewhat similar organization, but based
upon the 'Jewish idea' would best obtain their object.
Trie Jewish religion has many observances and customs
corresponding to the secret societies known to us. The
synagogue, for instance, might be compared to a lodge
room. It used to be open twice a day. For a Jew desiring
to find a friend, they had but to go there and make
themselves known by a certain sign and token.... The
sign consisted of a grip with a full hand and the magical
word Sholem Alachem. The messussah on the doorpost
was the countersign. Shema Israel (Hear, O Israel) was
the password."

Indeed, to this day, all local chapters of the B'nai
B'rith are referred to as Lodges, a practice borrowed
whole cloth from the Scottish Rite.

When Moses saw some Jews of this B'nai B'rith type,
who tried to make their religion into a pagan secret
society, he "took, the calf which they had made, and burnt
it in the fire, and ground it into powder... and Moses
returned unto the Lord, and said, Oh, this people have
sinned a great sin, and made them gods of gold."

The majority of Jews in America during the first
generations following independence were opposed to
the idea of a Jewish Freemasonic secret society. Thus,
Israel Joseph Benjamin, a noted European Jew, in his
memoirs Three Years in America, 1859-62 wrote of the
B'nai B'rith that "this is a secret society, like the Freema-
sons, with passwords and the like and was quite a new
phenomenon for me... still I think the existence of such
a society not at all necessary."
He was right. The secret agenda of the B'nai B'rith —

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13

like that of the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish
Rite — was to destroy the Union and pave the way for
reconquest by Britain.

Benjamin and Belmont

Two leading B'nai B'rith-allied figures would serve as
exemplars of the British strategy for permanently divid-
ing the Union: Judah P. Benjamin and August Belmont.
Benjamin (1811-1884) was born in the British West
Indies to Sephardic Jewish parents who moved to
Charleston, S.C. In 1827, he was inducted into the
Charleston Hebrew Orphan Aid Society, one of the pre-
cursors of the B'nai B'rith. After attending Yale College
in New Haven, Ct. (he was forced to drop out under a
cloud of scandal), Benjamin surfaced in New Orleans,
where he quickly won the patronage of John Slidell
Slidell, a U.S. senator who would later play a pivotal role
in the Confederacy, and sponsored the career of August
Belmont, who married Slidell's daughter.

With Slidell's assistance, Benjamin became a promi-
nent attorney, even serving for a period of time as the U.S.
attorney for New Orleans. Benjamin gained notoriety
for covering up the growing terrorist activities of the
Scottish Rite-sponsored Knights of the Golden Circle
while serving as the local federal prosecutor. In 1852,
Benjamin was elected U.S. senator, a post he retained
until the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, when he
resigned to serve the Confederacy. Benjamin was the
first Confederate attorney general. He later served as
secretary of war and secretary of state, ultimately run-
ning the Confederate secret service on behalf of Confed-
erate President Jefferson Davis.
Judah Benjamin escaped to England following the

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defeat of the Confederate secessionist plot. It was Benja-
min's Confederate secret service which organized and
supervised such figures in the assassination of Abraham
Lincoln as John Wilkes Booth and his accomplice, John
Surratt. Benjamin was charged with sedition for the Lin-
coln assassination, although he was never brought to trial
due to his protected status in England.

With the help of a leading Rothschild political asset
in England, Baron Pollack, Benjamin continued his legal
career in London. He never abandoned his commitment
to subvert and destroy the American republic, however.
As a wealthy lawyer for the British merchant oligarchs,
Judah Benjamin collaborated with other exiled Confed-
erate and Masonic strategists in England, such as James
D. Bulloch and Robert Toombs. Benjamin's continuing
preoccupation with defeating Reconstruction is indi-
cated in letters he wrote back to the U.S. with complaints
such as these:

"I have always looked with the utmost dread and
distrust on the experiment of emancipation so suddenly
enforced on the South by the event of the war. God
knows how it will all end!"; "the South is kept crushed
under negro rule"; "I can never consent to go to New
Orleans and break my heart witnessing the rule of ne-
groes and carpetbaggers"; and "nothing is so abhorrent
to me as Radicalism which seeks to elevate the populace
into the governing class."

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was founded in Tennessee
in the late 1860s by the southern Scottish Rite leadership
under Albert Pike. The KKK drew its membership from
the pre-Civil War Knights of the Golden Circle.

Judah P. Benjamin's early role in sponsoring and
protecting both the Knights of the Golden Circle and the

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Ku Klux Klan offers a crucial insight into the B'nai B'rith -
ADL's later role in fostering the revival of the KKK in the
post- World War II period. We shall return to that sordid
tale in a later chapter.

Another Rothschild and B'nai B'rith ally who en-
joyed the political patronage of arch-Confederate John
Slidell, August Belmont, was Judah Benjamin's northern
counterpart. A private secretary to the British House of
Rothschild who arrived in New York City from London
in 1837, Belmont rose to the chairmanship of the Demo-
cratic Party, a position he held for 20 years. Belmont was
a leading advocate of free trade and states' rights, both
cornerstones of the British reconquest scheme. Prior to
his emergence as a leading figure in the national Demo-
cratic Party, Belmont worked closely with the Charles-
ton, S.C. B'nai B'rith in fomenting radicalism among
America's youth. The effort was in this case run directly
by the Mother Lodge of the Scottish Rite in England, then
under the command of Britain's Prime Minister, Lord
Palmerston,

At Belmont's behest, Charleston B'nai B'rith leader
Edwin DeLeon wrote a pamphlet in the early 1850s
entitled The Position and Duties of Young America
DeLeon, whose family were slave traders, B'nai B'rith
founders and later leading Confederates, peddled free
trade and openly advocated a strong Anglo-American
alliance. While by today's standards, the appeals for a
strong Anglo-American alliance may seem palatable to
some, back in the middle of the 19th century, this was
borderline treason.

Belmont's Young America members were among
the draft rioters and radical abolitionists who disrupted
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Confederacy and England. During the early phase of the
Civil War, England tried repeatedly to intervene into the
conflict with "cease fire" plans that would have ensured
the permanent dissolution of the Union.

During the Civil War itself, while the majority of
American Jews sided with the North and fought valiantly
to preserve the Union, the B'nai B'rith was predomi-
nantly pro-Confederate. Even in New York City, the
Lodges preached secession.

The Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, founded by
Dutch Jews who made their money in the slave trade,
heard sermons by Rabbi Morris Raphall like the fol-
lowing:

"Who can blame our brethren of the South for their
being inclined to secede from a society under whose
government their ends cannot be attained and whose
union is kept together by heavy iron ties of violence and
arbitrary force? Who can blame our brethren of the South
for seceding from a society whose government cannot
and will not protect property rights and privileges of a
great portion of the Union?"

Following the Civil War and the assassination of
President Lincoln, many of the Jewish slave and cotton
traders from the South, typified by the Lehman Brothers,
moved to New York City and became prominent in Wall
Street banking and stock brokerages. With the defeat of
President Lincoln's Reconstruction program following
his assassination, President Andrew Johnson pardoned
the Scottish Rite insurrectionists — including Gen. Albert
Pike — and accepted a rank of 32nd Degree in the South-
ern Jurisdiction Freemasons. Suspected Lincoln assassi-

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nation plotter Simon Wolf was also absolved of any crimi-
nal culpability for his wartime activities.

The legacy of British Freemasonic treachery against
the Union survived intact — including the B'nai B'rith.

Although the slave trade nominally was banned in
the United States as a result of Lincoln's Emancipation
Proclamation, a new form of slavery had already been
launched by the British East India Company and its Scot-
tish Rite directors, including the same Lord Palmerston
who had played so pivotal a role in the secessionist
insurrection.

The new form of slavery was opium. Henry Carey,
one of the architects of Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruc-
tion program and a leading proponent of the American
System of Political Economy, warned about Britain's
Opium War against China and India in his 1853 book
The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign. He described
the trade in "that pernicious drug, opium" as "one of
perfect free trade!"

Defeated in the secessionist insurrectionist plot,
Britain and its fifth column of agents in both the North
and the South would eventually regroup around a strat-
egy for running an opium war against the United States.
As the reader will learn in later chapters of this book,
the B'nai B'rith and its Anti-Defamation League "secret
lodge" would play a central role in that effort.

Peddling Slavery Still Today

Fast forward to 1992. In the nation's capital, where B'nai
B'rith lawyer Simon Wolf conspired on behalf of the
southern slave trade, the streets in many parts of town
are dominated now by drug traffickers whose deadly
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violence and a spread of the AIDS virus among the pre-
dominandy black population. Community-based efforts,
led by the Nation of Islam, have begun to roll back that
new subculture of slavery and despair, restoring safety
and dignity to some of the most desperately poor neigh-
borhoods in the United States.

True to its history, the B'nai B'rith ADL intercedes
to turn back the clock to the days of slavery.

First, the ADL set off a massive wave of anger and
resentment in the African-American community when,
in June 1992, it published The Anti-Semitism of Black
Demagogues and Extremists. The widely circulated ADL
report is a frontal attack on the Nation of Islam (NO!) and
its leader, Minister Louis Farrakhan. It openly threatens
retribution against any elected officials or political activ-
ists who "associate with or publicly commend the NOI."

In July 1992, a major uproar developed in Washing-
ton, D.C. when the ADL was caught red-handed in an
ugly attempt to shut down any government contact with
what has been the only effective effort to clean up drug-
and crime-infested areas in the nation's capital: the NOI's
now-famous "Dopebusters."

When Washington, D.C. Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly
issued an official proclamation honoring Nation of Islam
leader Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad for his leadership in
the Dopebusters campaign, and for his groundbreaking
work in treating AIDS patients with Immuviron, an Afri-
can-developed anti-AIDS drug, the ADL went crazy.

Kelly' was repeatedly hit with ADL-organized "dele-
gations" demanding that the proclamation be rescinded
lest she, too, be identified as an anti-Semite. When she
refused, the ADL engaged in a national barrage of media
attacks against the Nation of Islam. The attacks culmi-

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nated in an article run in the Washington Times coau-
thored by ADL National Director Abe Foxman and Fact
Finding Director Mira Larisky Boland.

Ultimately, Kelly succumbed to ADL demands and
issued an "Open Letter to the Community" in which she
continued to praise Dr. Muhammad's work against drugs,
violence, and AIDS, but condemned alleged "anti-Se-
mitic" statements attributed to him by the ADL.

But what was really at the heart of the Washington
Times article, which was otherwise a potpourri of outra-
geous and unsubstantiated charges against the Nation of
Islam; was a demand that Congress defeat the major
appropriations bill for the Dept of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD), over the question of whether HUD
rules should permit a HUD contractor to hire the Dope-
busters to provide security for a federally subsidized
housing project in Los Angeles. The ADL was particularly
upset about the national attention the successful Dope-
busters drug eradication program was getting.

The Dopebusters were founded in Washington, D.G.
in 1988. Since then, unarmed Dopebuster patrols have
been able to eradicate drug trafficking at the street level
in nine Washington ghetto neighborhoods and private
housing projects. They have done so with no deaths and
very little violence.

Exemplary of the success of the program is the
Mayfair Mansions housing complex in Northeast Wash-
ington. Mayfair Mansions went from an ugly, unsafe, op-
en-air drug market in 1988, to being a handsomely re-
stored, safe, vibrant community, as a result of Dopebuster
patrols. When HUD Secretary Jack Kemp visited Mayfair
Mansions earlier this year, he admitted that the Nation
of Islam's Dopebusters deserved the credit, and indicated

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that he was open to granting the patrols federal govern-
ment contracts.

Tenants in public and private housing projects from
New York to Baltimore to Los Angeles are demanding
Dopebuster patrols. In most cases, the idea has the sup-
port of local police and government agencies who have
failed to find any other effective way to curtail the intensi-
fying pattern of drug trafficking and violence. In almost
every case, the ADL has attempted to block the tenants'
choice of security force. Tenant leaders who refuse to
back down have been subjected, to threats, harassment,
break-ins and other forms of intimidation

This time, however, the ADL may have committed
a fatal error in launching such an open and vicious attack
on the Nation of Islam. Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad is not
only a leader of the NOI, he is one of the most respected
community leaders in the Washington area, and his pion-
eering work against AIDS is gaining him international
recognition. The black and Hispanic communities in the
U.S. are disproportionately infected by the deadly virus,
but have had almost no access to the accepted treatment,
which consists of the prohibitively expensive (and
highly toxic) AZT, DDI, or DDC.

Dr. Muhammad and New York City physician Dr.
Barbara Justice, have reported dramatic success in treat-
ing more than 600 patients who are HIV-positive with
Immuviron, the drug they brought back from Kenya.
The pair is also credited with bringing vital information
concerning this new treatment modality to both the
general public and the medical profession, taking the
point in a courageous effort to avert what would other-
wise be the worst holocaust to hit the human race.
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cany little credibility, and leave the ADL completely
exposed as nothing more than a protection racket for
the drug cartel. The Dopebusters enjoy the intense sup-
port of the communities they serve and have an unprece-
dented record of success. Wherever they go, the Dope-
busters convey an unmistakable message of hope and
inspiration to the community, that the war on drugs can
be won. Interviews with the residents of the communi-
ties served by the Dopebusters make clear that they
believe that it is that message, and nothing else, that has
made the Nation of Islam and the Dopebusters a target
of ADL attack.

In a community where the twin plagues of drug
addiction and AIDS are the most visible vestiges of slav-
ery, the ADL has shown that despite the passage of time,
its true loyalties lie with the slave meters.

Wide World

Meyer Lansky, godfather of organized crime.

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2 A Public
Relations Front
for Meyer
Lansky

In 1985, the ADL proudly gave its Torch of
liberty award to Las Vegas "businessman" Morris Barney
Dalitz. The award ceremony, a strictly black-tie affair,
was given front-page attention in the League's monthly
Bulletin, which praised Dalitz as a great philanthropist
who had donated generously to the ADL over the years.
Dalitz's "generosity" was motivated by a lot more
than an impulse to help out a favorite charity. As one of
the most important figures in organized crime over a
period of sixty years, and as a lifetime right-hand man to
organized crime's 20th-century "chairman of the board,"
Meyer Lansky, Moe Dalitz was well aware of the fact that
the Anti-Defamation League was, from its founding, a
powerful secret arm of the National Crime Syndicate.
Without the ADL's undaunted "public relations" work on

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behalf of organized crime, the United States would have
never been flooded with illegal drugs, and gangsters like
Dalitz and Lansky would have long ago been carted off
to the penitentiary. Dalitz was one of the kingpins of
the Prohibition-era bootlegging business. He, along with
three other gangsters, Morris Kleinmah, Sam Tucker, and
Louis Rothkopf, ran the Cleveland underworld. Their
self-described "Jewish Navy" smuggled rotgut whiskey
across the Great Lakes from Canada into the Midwest
United States.

On the Canadian side of the lakes, the booze was
manufactured by the Bronfman Gang, led by Sam and
Abe Bronfman, second-generation Romanian immigrants
whose father had been brought over to Canada by the
B'nai B'rith-allied Baron de Hirsch Fund and had set up
a string of whorehouses. Sam and Abe used their Pure
Drug Company, which was established with the help
of the Hudson's Bay Company, to manufacture, illegal
whiskey during the Canadian Prohibition (1915-19).
When Canada legalized booze and the U.S. instituted its
ban a year later, they were all ready to become the major
suppliers to the gangsters south of the border.

U.S. government documents from the Prohibition
era claim that over 34,000 Americans died of alcohol
poisoning drinking the Bronfman brew. Today, Sam
Bronfman's son Edgar is a national commissioner of the
ADL and the head of its powerful New York Appeal. We
will pick up the trail of Edgar Bronfman later in our story.

Following Prohibition, Moe Dalitz became the un-
disputed crime boss of Cleveland, expanding his criminal
operations (gambling, labor racketeering, money laun-
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Miami. One of his Miami "investments," a nightspot
called the Frolic Club, was a joint venture with Lansky.

When Lansky moved into Cuba to open his first
offshore gambling, narcotics, and money laundering ha-
ven, Dalitz was brought in as a privileged partner. When
Lansky and the other directors of the National Crime
Syndicate decided that his longtime partner Benjamin
"Bugsy" Siegel had become a liability and had to be
assassinated, it was Dalitz who assumed the lion's share
of Siegel's Las Vegas casino interests — interests he still
holds today.

Lansky and Siegel had formed the original Murder,
Inc. — otherwise known as the "Meyer and Bugsy
Gang" — to enforce the creation of a National Crime Syn-
dicate overseeing the Prohibition-era illegal liquor and
narcotics traffic. From the very outset, Dalitz had been a
member of the national commission of the crime syndi-
cate. Up until Lansky's death in 1983, Dalitz was a regular
visitor to the crime boss's Miami Beach condo, and was
widely presumed by law enforcement officials to be one
of the primary heirs to Lansky's crime empire.

Just two years after Lansky's death, Dalitz was pub-
licly surfaced as an ADL philanthropist. It was a sign of
the times. By the beginning of the 1980's "Decade of
Greed," drug money — narco-dollars — had already re-
placed petro-dollars as the primary source of liquidity to
fuel the stock market and real estate speculative bubbles
facilitated by the Carter and Reagan administrations' de-
regulation of the banking and brokerage industries. As
the power of drug money grew, so too did the political
and financial clout of the ADL Junk bond swindlers like
Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken, and dope bankers like

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Edmund Safra — not to mention Moe Dalitz — regularly
poured millions into the ADL war chest. In return for
this largesse, the ADL publicly branded anyone who chal-
lenged the clout of organized crime as a dyed in the wool
anti-Semite.

The lionizing of mobster Dalitz was the ADL's way
of boasting that their public relations work over a seven-
ty-year period had paid off.

Gangsters and Traitors from the Start

Things were not always so easy.

The ADL had been founded shortly after the turn of
the century as a "Jewish defense" arm of the B'nai B'rith,
the nominally Jewish secret society sponsored and con-
trolled by the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry and by some
of the leading British and American WASP families.

B'nai B'rith Washington, D.C. representative Simon
Wolf, the man whom Lincoln's Secret Service Chief LaFa-
yette C. Baker had arrested as a Confederate spy and
Union blockade runner during the Civil War, was now
working closely with President Theodore Roosevelt in
mobilizing Jewish-American support for the overthrow
of the Russian Czar.

According to Wolfs 1918 autobiography, he had
met secretly with President Roosevelt at his Sagamore
Hills estate in New York and had launched an interna-
tional drive to brand the Czarist regime as "anti-Semitic."
After a series of meetings and correspondence with Rus-
sia's Prime Minister Count Sergei Witte (arranged by
Roosevelt), Wolf had denounced the Russian regime for
reneging on its promises to curb anti- Jewish pogroms,
after which American Jewish organizations, led from be-
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to the anti-Czarist insurrectionists. Thus, B'nai B'rith
played an active role in the Russian Revolution of 1905.

This activity would lead to widespread allegations
that prominent American Jews were pro-Bolshevik. The
Warburg family of Kuhn, Loeb and Company did fund
VI. Lenin and Leon Trotsky; and father and son Bolshevik
agents Julius and Armand Hammer, who helped found
the US. Communist Party, did actively spread the Bolshe-
vik cause in America and spent a decade in the Soviet
Union following the 1917 revolution. These allegations
of pro-Communist sentiments, while grounded in well-
publicized, scandalous actions by prominent Jewish fami-
lies, missed the mark.

In feet, the plot to bring down the Czar and install
the Bolsheviks in power in Russia served longstanding
British imperial and geopolitical interests of the sort
advanced by the Scottish Rite. Britain feared the develop-
ment of a Eurasian alliance among France, Germany,
Russia, Japan, and China, based on economic cooperation
and facilitated by the building of a transcontinental sys-
tem of railroads linking the East to the West Such a
transcontinental railroad system would render Britain's
domination over the seas relatively unimportant.

B'nai B'rith joined in the effort to sink the Czar for
the same reasons the Order joined in the Confederates'
secessionist plot to destroy the Union forty years earlier:
because B'nai B'rith was an arm of the British Freema-
sonic treason.

In feet, one of the most compelling reasons for Brit-
ish hatred of Russia was the role played by Czar Alexan-
der II in coming to the aid of Abraham Lincoln during
the darkest days of the U.S. Civil War. In 1863, Czar
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U.S. potts of New York and San Francisco and threatened
to go to war against Britain if the Crown joined the war
on the side of the Confederacy.

At the same time the so-called Jewish-Bolshevik ties
were being targeted (frequently by people with actual
anti-Semitic biases), diligent local police around the
United States were becoming legitimately alarmed at the
growing crime problem. New York City Police Commis-
sioner Theodore A. Bingham, in September 1908,
penned an article for the prestigious North American
Review tided "Foreign Criminals in New York." The arti-
cle detailed the rise of gambling, prostitution and drugs
on New York's Lower East Side, emphasizing the role of
Jewish, Italian and Irish immigrant gangsters in that
crime explosion.

Bingham was not alone in his concern about the
rise of gangsterism in the Jewish communities of the
metropolitan New York area and beyond. In April 1910,
the leading Jewish families of the United States, Germany,
France and Great Britain sent delegates to a "Jewish
International Convention on the Suppression of the Traf-
fic in Girls and Women" in London. Keynote speaker
Arthur R. Moro delivered an alarming report on the
involvement of Jewish gangsters in the worldwide white
slave trade and in bigtime prostitution:

"I wish I had time to tell you all I know, which goes to
show that the traffic of Jewesses is almost worldwide.
But I must restrict myself to a few... incidents to prove
that an extensive traffic does exist.... In 1901, a Rabbi
came from the Transvaal and told me that the amount of
Jewish prostitution and traffic in Johannesburg, Pretoria,
Lourenco Marques, Beira and Salisbury are appalling. In
later years, the same story came from another Rabbi

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regarding Capetown... In 1903, a Jewish schoolmaster
who had spent some time in Egypt said that the traffic
by Jews of Jewesses to Alexandria, Cairo and Port Said
was an absolute scandal. There were Greek, Italian and
French prostitutes, but they were far outnumbered by
the Jewesses.... We have received, and have correspon-
dence to show that this awful condition of affairs exists
in Calcutta to a large extent, and also all along the free
ports of China... From the Chief Rabbi of Constantino-
ple, from a distinguished Jewish-American scholar, from
a prominent London gentleman, and from a schoolmis-
tress in Calata we have had letters during the past six
months describing an outrageous condition of affairs in
Constantinople, where traffic in prostitutes is carried out
openly and shamelessly, and where the traffickers have
their own Synagogue. ... They say things in Damascus
are even worse."

Already in 1909, the leading "Our Crowd" families
of New York had established their own Bureau of Social
Morals, headed by Rabbi Judah P. Magnes. The Bureau
hired private detective Abe Schoenfeld, an investigator
for John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to infiltrate and profile the
organized crime structure centered on the Lower East
Side of Manhattan. Schoenfeld's mission was hardly that
of crimebuster. In 1922, Rabbi Magnes took those volu-
minous files with him when he moved to Jerusalem and
founded the Hebrew University. To this day, that genea-
logical chart of organized crime remains a part of the
university's most closely guarded archives. It was during
this same period of mounting concern over the exposure
of Jewish-surnamed gangsters, that the Anti-Defamation
League was founded.

One of the very first targets of the ADL was New
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smeared as an anti-Semite for his efforts to quell orga-
nized crime on the Lower East Side. Bingham's crime-
fighting efforts were by no means targeted exclusively
against Jewish gangsters. His chief detective, Lt. Joseph
Petrosino, was assassinated in March 1909 in Sicily, while
meeting with Italian police to establish cooperation in
probing links between criminal elements and anarchist
networks operating in both the United States and Italy.

In 1901, Petrosino had warned the Secret Service
about an-imminent assassination attempt against Presi-
dent William McKinley. Petrosino had learned of the plot
by infiltrating his agents into the Henry Street Settlement
House in New York, a hotbed of British Fabian Society
and international anarchist activity. The Secret Service
ignored his warnings, and McKinley was assassinated
months later, leaving British agent and B'nai B'rith ally
Teddy Roosevelt to assume the presidency.

The nascent ADL, still formally called the Publicity
Committee of the B'nai B'rith, had assailed Bingham's
crimefighting efforts for "maligning Jews" and eventually
succeeded in having him ousted as police commissioner.
Organized crime got a big boost as a result What's more,
the effort to establish the links betweenorganized crime,
international anarchist circles and, perhaps, the Scottish
Rite and B'nai B'rith secret societies, was stillborn.

The man who founded and headed up the ADL for
its first thirty years was Sigmund Livingston, a prominent
Chicago attorney who had headed up the powerful B'nai
B'rith Midwest Lodge Number 6. Livingston was the law-
yer for the Chicago and Alton Railways, a company
owned by William Moore of the prominent Episcopalian
family. From the 1890s, the Moore family had forged a
business alliance with the J.P. Morgan banking interests.

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The Moores, with Morgan financing, founded the Na-
tional Biscuit Company (now RJR-Nabisco) and U.S. Steel
Corporation. Within two generations, members of the
Moore family would also control Bankers Trust Company
and sit on the board of the International Business Ma-
chines Corporation (IBM).

The Moore family's sponsorship of Livingston, ADL
chairman from 1915-45, was a reflection of the underly-
ing relationship between the leading WASP Freemasonic
families and the ADL that continues through to the pres-
ent. The Moore family's Nabisco and U.S. Steel are on
record today as major financial backers of the ADL

Ironically, Bishop Paul Moore, of the same Moore
family, served for years as the Episcopal Bishop of New
York, based at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. He
was the superior to Canon Edward West.

Canon West's promise to "get his Jewish friends to
take care of Lyndon LaRouche provided crucial evi-
dence that the real power behind the ADL and its orga-
nized crime confederates is the Scottish Rite.

Prohibition

With the ADL's successful drive to oust New York Police
Commissioner Bingham, organized crime began to
spread its tentacles out into New York City and across
the country. By the onset of Prohibition in 1920, the
undisputed chief of the New York rackets was Arnold
Rothstein, the son of a prominent garment manufacturer
and a junior member of the elite "Our Crowd."

Many of the "Our Crowd" families — like the Leh-
mans — had come to New York from the South in the
post-Civil War period. They were transplanted Confeder-
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LANSKY

schild family's Wall Street representative, August Bel-
mont, to quickly establish themselves among the city's
leading bankers and stockbrokers. They had participated
in the unsuccessful Confederate secessionist plot against
the Union. Now, they would take a leading role in the
British effort to direct a new opium war against the
American people.

Rothstein operated a gambling and prostitution syn-
dicate out of the Metropole Hotel in Midtown Manhattan,
far from the teeming ethnic ghetto of the Lower East Side.
He ran the unofficial gambling commission for Tammany
Hall boss Timothy Sullivan. He hobnobbed with some
of the country's wealthiest legitimate businessmen, like
Julius Heischmann, the yeast manufacturer, Joseph Sea-
gram, the Canadian distiller, Harry Sinclair of the Sinclair
Oil Company, and Percival H. Hill, head of the American
Tobacco Company. In 1919, Rothstein engineered the
fixing of the baseball World Series on behalf of his gam-
bling cronies, in what became known as the Chicago
"Black Sox" scandal.

At the behest of Lower East Side gangster Irving
Wexler (also known as Waxey Gordon) and Detroit
mobster Max Greenberg, Rothstein put up the initial
$175,000 to establish the first bootlegging operations of
the Prohibition era, servicing the Midwest and the East
Coast with British whiskey transported across the Atlan-
tic. Rum running ships owned by Rothstein and his part-
ners would smuggle the British whiskey from Long Island
Sound into the US. Rothstein's British contacts included
Winston Churchill, who at the time headed the Royal
Commission in charge of liquor.

In 1921, Rothstein also opened up a British pipeline
for smuggling heroin into the United States, via his busi-

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ness agent in China, Jacob Katzenberg. Katzenberg
hooked up with the British opium cartel, then headed
by Lord Keswick of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking
Corporation and the Jardine and Mathe$on trading com-
pany, and arranged the transit of the illegal drugs through
Marseilles into New York City. The route, later known
as the "French Connection," would remain the primary
pipeline of heroin into America up through the 1960s.

ADL Gets a Piece of the Action

The period of Prohibition marked the syndication of
organized crime. It also marked the emergence of illegal
money as a major source of investment capital in so-
called legitimate business. As the proceeds of the billions
of dollars in illegal whiskey and dope sales were funneled
into such lucrative "straight" investments as the Holly-
wood motion picture and music industries, the Nevada
gambling casinos (Nevada conveniently legalized casino
gambling just as Prohibition was coming to an end), and
post-Prohibition legal alcohol distilleries, the ADL was
on hand to directly reap the benefits.

In 1929, one of Meyer Lansky 's New York City crime
lieutenants, Frank Erickson, founded the Sterling Na-
tional Bank. Erickson was a specialist in money laun-
dering. After Lansky replaced Arnold Rothstein (he was
assassinated in 1926) as the chairman of the board of
the National Crime Syndicate, Erickson had been put in
charge of the nationwide bookmaking operations. Erick-
son handled Lansky's hidden interests in gambling casi-
nos, racetracks and other businesses around the country.
Sterling National Bank served as the mob's "factor" bank
in the New York City garment center, doling out high-

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interest, short-term loans to thousands of small clothing
manufacturers to purchase their raw materials.

The loans were collateralized by the garment firms-
accounts receivable. On paper, it was a "benign," barely
legal form of loan sharking. In practice, it was the syndi-
cate's foot in the door for taking over the entire garment
industry through violence and intimidation. Erickson's
relationship with Lansky gave Sterling virtually unchal-
lenged control over the garment center. In 1934, Theo-
dore H. Silbert went to work for Sterling National Bank.
Within a decade of his arrival, Silbert was the bank's
chairman, president, and CEO, posts he would retain up
until his death in early 1992.

Silbert was the ADL's man on the scene. He would
serve as the ADL's national commissioner, treasurer, and
chief fundraiser. The ADL established its bank accounts
at Sterling National, and, according to IRS records, in-
vested in bank stock. The only other outside investment
into which the ADL would ever put its own money would
be the American Bank and Trust Company (ABT), an-
other New York City bank which listed ADL National
Commissioner and B'nai B'rith International President
Philip Klutznick as a director. ABT would go under when
shady Mossad financier David Graiver made off with all
the bank's deposits and then ostensibly died in a mysteri-
ous airplane crash over Mexico. Graiver's so-called death
was so suspect that New York State listed him as a co-
conspirator in the ABT bank fraud investigation for years.

Although Silbert's emergence as the leading figure
at Sterling National was part of a campaign to cleanse the
bank's public image by replacing a known gangster with
a "philanthropist and civic-minded banker," Sterling con-
tinued to be entangled in shady financial dealing, some-

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times leading to high-visibility civil suits. The most ex-
plosive of these scandals hit in January 1982, when the
Italian government filed suit in U.S. District Court in New
York City against Sterling, charging it with "constructive
trust, conspiracy to defraud, fraud, and breach of fidu-
ciary duty." The case revolved around Italian banker
Michele Sindona's looting of $27 million from the Banca
Privata in 1973-74. The theft had repercussions across
the Atlantic as well. The Franklin National Bank on Long
Island, N.Y. went bust as the result of Sindona's involve-
ment. Sterling National Bank was one of the laundromats
through which Sindona washed the stolen cash.

Not surprisingly, Sindona would later be exposed as
a pivotal figure in the Propaganda-2 Freemasonic Lodge,
a secret Italian branch of the Scottish Rite with strong
ties to the Mafia. Its antecedent, the 19th-century Propag-
anda-1 Lodge, had been founded by Giuseppe Mazzini,
the founder of the Sicilian Mafia, a leading member of
the First Communist International and an agent of Brit-
ain's Lord Palmerston, the Grand Master of the Scottish
Rite.

Some things just never change.

ADL's shady links to Sterling National Bank went
beyond Theodore Silbert. Another longtime director of
the bank and ADL man, Maxwell Raab, was a business
partner of Meyer Lansky in a company called the Interna-
tional Airport Hotel Corporation The vice chairman of
the powerful New York State ADL, Raab weathered the
public airing of his Lansky links and went on to be the
United States ambassador to Italy during the Reagan ad-
ministration.

Arnold Bums was another ADL asset on the board
of Sterling. Burns's law firm, Burns and Summit, got

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caught up in a tax evasion scheme in the early 1980s
that almost landed both partners in jail. Under a loophole
to the federal tax codes written into law thanks to the
Zionist lobby in the U.S. Congress, American investors
in Israeli research and development firms could claim
their investments as tax writeoffs.

Arnold Burns set up a string of tax shelters in the
Bahamas, ostensibly to fund these Israeli R&D projects.
However, the money — minus a hefty fee to Burns and
Summit — never reached Israel. It was laundered right
back into the U.S. where it could be used by its owners,
tax free. When the scheme became the subject of a
federal grand jury in New York, Burns pointed a finger
at some of his cohorts and walked away unscathed. A few
months later, Arnold Burns was named deputy attorney
general of the United States, a post he held throughout
most of the Reagan era! Burns's name had been placed
before Ronald Reagan by John J. McGloy, a powerhouse
in the New York City WASP establishment, and the for-
mer chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank.

Nor is Sterling National Bank the only ADL bank
implicated in the dope trade and organized crime. Leo-
nard Abess of Miami, Fla., is another honorary national
chairman of the ADL. He is the chairman of City National
Bank of Miami, one of many Florida banks caught laun-
dering bigtime drug money. A top aide to Abess at City
National, Alberto Duque, was jailed in the late 1980s for
laundering dope dollars. Another senior bank official,
Donald Beasley, was hired by Abess on the basis of his
former work for the Nugen Hand Bank in Australia.

Nugen Hand went bust in the mid-1980s when one
of its founders, Frank Nugen, was found dead in his car,
the victim of what police labeled a "suicide," and the

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other partner, former Green Beret and CIA agent Michael
Hand, disappeared into thin air with $26 million in bank
assets, Nugen Hand had been set up during the final days
of the Vietnam War by ex-CIA and Pentagon officers,
including Ted Shackley, to launder black market profits
into shady intelligence operations throughout Asia.

Hollywood Hoodlums

If the 1985 Moe Dalitz award dinner was a kind of "com-
ing out party" for the ADL's friends in the National Crime
Syndicate, it was by no means the first time the League
publicly flaunted its deep ties to the gangster world.

In 1963, as part of an effort to vastly expand its
fundraising reach, the ADL appointed Hollywood pro-
ducer Dore Schary as its national chairman. At the time,
Schary was the reigning superstar at the Metro Goldwyn
Mayer studios. Among the Hollywood insiders, however,
Schary was known as a lifelong pal of syndicate higher-
up Abner "Longie" Zwillman of New Jersey. Zwillman
was one of the first of the Prohibition-era bootleggers and
Lansky aides to get involved in the Hollywood motion
picture industry. Ah original member of "Murder, Inc."
and the head of the powerful Reinfeld boodegging syndi-
cate in New Jersey, Zwillman expanded into labor racke-
teering during the waning days of Prohibition. By 1930,
he had seized control over the screen operators union
up and down the East Coast, and parlayed that into shares
in some of the big Hollywood studios.

At this time, Dore Schary ran an amateur drama
group at the YMHA in Newark, NJ. Childhood friend
Zwillman sent Schary out to the West Coast and installed
him at MGM.

When Zwillman got into trouble with the IRS in

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the late 1950s, some of his syndicate associates became
convinced that he might betray some of the mob's most
closely held financial secrets. On Feb. 27, 1959, he was
found hanging from a pipe in the basement of his twenty-
room West Orange, N.J. mansion. According to FBI re-
ports, S chary attended the funeral. In the FBI memo
citing Schary's appearance at the Zwillman funeral, the
Bureau delivered a kind of eulogy to the mobster. Citing
an article from the New York World Telegram, the FBI
memo read:

"Nobody... followed so successfully for so long the
approved underworld formula for success — from rags to
rackets to riches to respectability."

If the "rags to respectability" formula were to be
applied to organizations, the Anti-Defamation League
would be first on the list of success stories.

EIRNS/Leo Scanlon

ADL executive Kenneth Bialkin, attorney for organized crime
drug money laundering figures.

3 The ADL and
the Opium War
Against
America

For the past two decades, Wall Street law-
yer Kenneth Bialkin has been "Mr. ADL." A longstanding
member of the League's National Executive Committee,
Bialkin served from 1982 through 1986 as the League's
National chairman. It was on his watch that gangster Moe
Dalitz got the ADL's prestigious "Torch of Liberty" prize;
that junk bond swindler Michael Milken poured millions
of dollars into the launching of the League's "A World of
Difference" propaganda campaign to wreck American
public education; and that accused drug money laun-
derer Edmund Safra got Bialkin and the ADL to mediate
a corporate divorce between his banking empire and the
American Express Company. In return for Bialkin's effort
to salvage Safra's badly tarnished reputation, the ADL
received all million tax-exempt payoff from him.

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42 ADL AND THE OPIUM WAR AGAINST AMERICA

But Bialkin's real claim to fame is that he was a
central figure in the doping of America. Without Kenneth
Bialkin's behind the scenes legal maneuvering, the Med-
ellin Cartel would have had a far more difficult time
establishing a beachhead in the United States. In much
the same way Bialkin quieted the potentially stormy
divorce between Edmund Safra and American Express,
he brokered the marriage between renegade financier
Robert Vesco and the Medellin Cartel's chief of logistics,
Carlos Lehder Rivas. As a result, the dope smuggling
routes through the Caribbean into the United States were
consolidated, and the streets' of America were flooded
during the 1980s with marijuana and cocaine.

Bialkin, Vesco, and IOS

This sordid story began in 1970, when Kenneth Bialkin,
the senior partner at the Wall Street law firm of Willkie,
Farr and Gallagher, helped engineer Robert Vesco's take-
over of the Investors Overseas Service (IOS), a Swiss-
based mutual fund that was founded by Bernie Cornfeld
with startup funding from the Swiss -French branch of
the Rothschild family.

IOS was a front for Meyer Lansky's international
crime syndicate. IOS "salesman" traveled the globe car-
rying suitcases full of cash across international borders.
Some of the money came from local investors, but the
bulk of it was hot money gained from the Latisky syndi-
cate's dope, gambling, prostitution, and extortion
rackets.

If this method of money laundering was labor inten-
sive and primitive compared to today's high-speed elec-
tronic wire transfers, it was nevertheless efficient. The
cash eventually wound up in numbered accounts at some

ADL AND THE OPIUM WAR AGAINST AMERICA 43

of Switzerland's most corrupt and secretive banks. Some
of the banks linked to the IOS apparatus, like the Geneva-
based International Credit Bank (BCI) and the Nassau,
Bahamas-based Bank of World Commerce, were flagrant
fronts for the Lansky syndicate. While BCI was owned
by a senior officer of the Israeli Mossad named Tibor
Rosenbaum, BCI's office manager, Sylvain Ferdman, was
identified by Life magazine in 1967 as one of Lansky's
top bagmen; and World Commerce director Alvin Mainik
was Lansky's "accountant."

When Lansky and his controllers decided to shift
the center of their underground banking operations from
Switzerland to the Caribbean as part of the planned
expansion of cocaine and marijuana smuggling into the
United States, it was the ADL and Bialkin that engineered
the move.

First, the ADL's Minneapolis, Minn, apparatus
(known inside the League as the "Minneapolis Mafia"),
which ran the notorious Kid Cann (Isadore Blumenfeld)
organized crime ring, provided the money for a local
Hebrew schoolteacher turned business entrepreneur
named Meshulam Riklis to buy up a large block of shares
of IOS stock. Once Riklis had amassed enough stock to
control the company, he turned around and sold all his
shares to Vesco. Vesco was represented in the transac-
tion by Kenneth Bialkin.

Vesco's next step was to oust Bernie Cornfeld as the
president of IOS and take over the job himself. Over the
next several years, a total of $270 million was siphoned
out of IOS accounts in Switzerland. Officially, the money
was never found, and Robert Vesco conveniently fled the
United States one step ahead of the FBI and the IRS.
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may have been largely a wash of Lansky syndicate dollars.
From Prohibition onward, the Minneapolis Kid Cann
gang had been handlers of Lansky money. Kid Cann even-
tually moved to the Miami area and was a key player in
Lansky's bigtime move into southern Florida "gold coast"
real estate.

However, not all of the money siphoned out of IOS
by Vesco was "family cash." A lawsuit was brought in U.S.
District Court in New York City in 1980 by some of the
independent, investors who had lost their shirts in the
looting of IOS. While not revealing the whereabouts of
the missing millions, the civil suit identified Bialkin and
the Bank of New York as partners of the fugitive financier
in the scheme. On July 31, 1980, Federal Judge D.J.
Stewart ordered Willkie, Farr and Gallagher to pay $24.5
million to a group of IOS investors and ordered the Bank
of New York to pay $35.6 million. The case file, which
fills twenty cartons stored at the Federal District Court
warehouse in Bayonne, N.J., shows that Bialkin was the
evil genius behind the looting scheme.

A year before the court ordered Willkie, Farr and
the Bank of New York to pay up for their role in the
looting of IOS, some of that money had been used by
Vesco to purchase Normans Cay in the Bahamas. Vesco's
partner in the deal was Carlos Lehder Rivas, a small-time
Colombian car thief and marijuana smuggler who had
recently gotten out of jail in Florida. Lehder, an un-
abashed supporter of Adolf Hitler who would later use
some of his smuggling profits to found a neo-Nazi, radical
environmentalist political party in Colombia, fit neatly
into the ADL scheme, with his family ties back in Colom-
bia to leading figures in the then-emerging Medellin
Cartel.

ADL AND THE OPIUM WAR AGAINST AMERICA 45

By 1980, the Vesco-Lehder-owned Normans Cay
was serving as the command center and transshipment
depot for a massive marijuana and cocaine trafficking
operation from Medellin into the United States.

For several years, while running the Normans Cay
operation, Vesco skipped from the Bahamas to Costa Rica
to Nicaragua, buying up local politicians and newspaper
editors and always miraculously staying one step ahead
of an FBI that never really seemed too intent on capturing
the fugitive money man. On one occasion on Antigua,
Vesco was hosting a lavish party on a boat that he had
bought from Saudi financier Adrian Khashoggi, while FBI
agents were combing the island looking for the elusive
fugitive.

In 1982, Vesco took more secure permanent refuge
in Havana, Cuba as the personal guest and financial ad-
viser to Communist dictator Fidel Castro. Vesco and
Lehder cut Castro into the lucrative cocaine and mari-
juana business, using Cuban airstrips to refuel their drug
flights to America and, in return, helping Fidel to funnel
guns to terrorist groups across Latin America. According
to investigative reporten Ernest Volkman, by 1984, Vesco
and Lehder had earned Fidel a $20 billion cut of the
growing Western Hemisphere dope trade. Thanks to ADL
frontman Vesco, Americans were getting hooked on co-
caine, while Fidel Castro was reaping billions to foment
narco -terrorist insurgencies all over the Hemisphere;

In the meantime, back on U.S. soil, "Mr. ADL," Ken-
neth Bialkin, continued to ply his trade. In 1988, he left
his post as managing partner of Willkie, Farr to take a
partnership at another Wall Street mega-firm, Skadden
Arps Slate Meagher and Flom. In the speculative frenzy
that had followed the Carter administration's deregula-

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tion of the nation's banking system and financial markets,
Skadden Arps had emerged as the "sleaze king" of Wall
Street lawyering. The firm's number one client was
Drexel Burnham's junk bond super-salesman, Michael
Milken. When Milken left the wood-paneled conference
rooms of lower Manhattan to set up shop in Beverly Hills,
Calif., Skadden Arps obliged by opening up their own
eighty-man Beverly Hills office to service Milken's every
need.

Among Milken's oldest and most well-fed clients
was Meshulam Riklis, the former Minneapolis Hebrew
schoolteacher who had been an important prop in the
Bialkin-executed takeover and looting of IOS.

(To do him justice, it should be noted that before
he landed in Minnesota, the Turkish-born Riklis had been
a British police spy in Palestine before Israel won its
independence. When his treachery was exposed, the
Stern Gang, led by Menaehem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir,
tod imposed a death sentence on Riklis, That death sen-
tence was finally lifted in the early 1980s after the Begin
and Shamir-led Likud Party came into power in Israel,
and Riklis made a very large cash contribution to their
campaign coffers. That rapprochement was apparently
arranged by Israel's Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, after
Riklis bought him a ranch in the Negev Desert)

Bialkin and Safra

Before he moved over to Skadden Arps, Kenneth Bialkin

had occupied a great deal of his time during the 1980s
with engineering a consolidation and reorganization of
some of the oldest of the "Our Crowd" brokerage houses.
The banking deregulation frenzy of the Carter and early
Reagan years, combined with skyrocketing U.S. interest

ADL AND THE OPIUM WAR AGAINST AMERICA 47

rates, had turned the U.S. economy into a haven for
hot money. "Narco-dollars" were flooding the U.S., and
Bialkin apparently recognized that if he could create a
large enough and diversified enough financial structure
to accommodate the hot cash, the rewards would be
nearly endless.

In rapid succession, he executed the absorption of
Lehman Brothers into Kuhn, Loeb and Company.
Shearson Hay den Stone bought out Loeb Rhodes. And,
by 1984, all of those houses had been in turn bought out
by American Express Company, which changed its name
to Shearson Lehman American Express.

Bialkin was an attorney of record on each of these
transactions and he landed a seat on the board of direc-
tors of the newly consolidated Shearson Amex entity.
Bialkin's buddy Henry Kissinger, by now a high-flying
consultant to a fleet of major multinational corporations,
also joined the board of the Amex mega-combine.

In 1983, Bialkin had also orchestrated the marriage
of the Amex conglomerate with Edmund Safra's Trade
Development Bank of Geneva. When the ink dried, Safra
was holding 4 percent of Amex's stock and was president
of its private banking division. The other large-block
shareholder in the new conglomerate was Carl Lindner,
another rags-to-riches wheeler-dealer long suspected of
being a front man for the Lansky crowd. Courtesy of
Michael Milken and former Dalitz "Purple Gang" member
Max Fisher (another prominent ADL figure), Lindner
became the owner of United Brands, formerly the United
Fruit Company. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
officials acknowledged in 1978 that an estimated 20 per-
cent of the illegal drugs coming into the United States
from South and Central America were being smuggled

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courtesy of United Brands, a company with longstanding
ties to organized crime and U.S. intelligence.

The capacity for money laundering and smuggling
represented by this United Brands-Amex combine made
Vesco's earlier IOS venture seem like a mom and pop
operation in comparison.

However, things began to unravel very dramatically
for Bialkin and his conglomerate clients on April 2,1989.
That day's Sunday edition of New York Newsday ran a
full-page banner headline: "Dirty Money — No.
606347712 Is the NY Bank Account Where 2 Major Drug
Money-Laundering Probes Meet."

The story, by ace investigative reporter Knut Royce,
revealed that Edmund Safra's Republic National Bank of
New York was serving as a money laundering hub for
both the Medellin Cartel and the Syrian-Lebanese Mafia.
DEA and U.S. Customs investigators involved in two sepa-
rate high-priority probes had traced dope dollars from
South America and the Middle East into the same num-
bered account at the main branch of Republic.

Royce's story was based in part on a Jan. 3, 1989 DEA
report from the Berne, Switzerland office. The subject of
the report was a Geneva-based firm, Shakarchi Trading
Company. Working in league with the Bulgarian secret
police, the Turkish mafia, and Syrian and Lebanese drug
traffickers in the Bekaa Valley, Shakarchi had laundered
the profits of the Middle East heroin and hashish trade
through Switzerland into Republic National Bank. Ac-
count No. 606347712 was Shakarchi's account.

What's more, the DEA document revealed that Ed-
mund Safra had been a lifelong friend of Mahmoud Sha-
karchi, the founder of the Swiss company, and continued
to enjoy a close business relationship with Mahmoud's

ADL AND THE OPIUM WAR AGAINST AMERICA 49

sons, who were running the firm at the time of the News-
day expose. The DEA report said that all of Safra's banks
had "surfaced in the investigation of Shakarchi's alleged
drug money laundering activities."

The Newsday story had been apparendy put to-
gether with the assistance of angry federal drug investiga-
tors who felt that major drug money laundering cases
had been blocked for political reasons.

Indeed, both Bialkin and Safra were hot political
commodities at that moment. Iran-Contra special prose-
cutor Lawrence Walsh was deep into his probe of illegal
covert operations by the Reagan-Bush White House, and
both Bialkin and Safra — as well as the ADL — had surfaced
as prominent players in the secret diplomacy with Khom-
eini's Iran and the illegal covert war against Nicaragua:

•Bialkin had been the attorney for Adnan Khashoggi
in arranging for the Saudi financier's purchasing of
the original shipment of arms to Iran in exchange for
the release of ah American hostage.

•Bialkin's Willkie, Farr law partner in Geneva, Willard
Zucker, had been the money handler for Oliver
North and Richard Secord at Lake Resources, Inc.
Earlier, Zucker had been Bialkin's Swiss point-man
in the Vesco looting of IOS.

•Another longtime Wall Street associate of Bialkin,
Arthur Liman, had served as the chief counsel to the
Senate Iran-Contra panel, which whitewashed the
scandal and threw up major roadblocks to Walsh's
independent counsel probe.

•The ADL's Latin American Affairs director, Rabbi
Morton Rosenthal, had authored a report labeling
the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua as "antr- Semitic"

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and urging all American Jews to back the Reagan
administration's secret war in Central America.

•Carl Gershman, who cut his political teeth working
as a full-time staffer at the ADL's Fact Finding (dirty
tricks) Division in the late 1960s, was made the head
of the Reagan administration's National Endowment
for Democracy (NED), which was the primary fund-
ing conduit for the entire Contra effort.

•Edmund Safra had been direcdy involved in the logis-
tics of the Iran-Contra operations through his Repub-
lic Corporate Air front company, which he jointly
owned with Willard Zucker. According to news ac-
counts, it was one of Safra's airplanes that brought
Ollie North and Robert McFarlane to Teheran in the
spring of 1986 bn their last ill-feted effort at an arms-
for-hostage deal.

The Newsday story also intersected an escalating
war of words between Safra and Amex Chairman James
Robinson III. Safra had quit as Amex's international bank-
ing head a few years after he had merged his Trade
Development Bank into the Bialkin-made mega-firm.
With a four-year, non-competition clause now expired,
Safra had launched a raid on some of Amex's top employ-
ees and private banking clients in preparation for the
launching of a new private bank in Switzerland. Amex
fought back and the whole sordid affair landed before a
federal judge in civil court in New York. Kenneth Bialkin,
still representing Amex, hammered out an out of court
settlement which included a published apology to Safra
and a payment by Amex of $1 million to each of four of
Safra's favorite "charities." The ADL was on the top of the
list of beneficiaries.

ADL AND THE OPIUM WAR AGAINST AMERICA 51

It was a classic case of ADL sleight of hand, Amex
delivered an "apology" to Safra, "exonerating" Safra of
any alleged drug money laundering, even though nobody
ever challenged the authenticity of either the DEA's
Berne memo or the Newsday story! The New York Times
and all the major Wall Street-linked news media dutifully
ran the Amex mea culpa, and the ADL waltzed off with
a cool million bucks in tax-exempt funds.

In the meantime, the ADL was busy on a dozen other
fronts, helping to fuel the speculative frenzy that would
drive the U.S. economy into the ground by the end of
the 1980s.

Wide World

Convicted insider trader Michael Milken, who has close ADL
ties, used a network of "corporate raiders" to launder money
through his junk bond schemes.

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4 The ADL and
the Junk Bond
Bandits Rip Off
America

In the autumn of 1991, attorney Alan Der-
showitz, who had been hired by junk bond king Michael
Milken to get him out of jail, purchased an ad in the New
York Times to denounce a new book on Milken as "anti-
Semitic." The book, Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart,
the front-page editor of the Wall Street Journal, detailed
the massive and consistent criminality of Milken's opera-
tion at Drexel Burnham.

In his book, Stewart cut through the myth of Milken
as a financial genius, showing instead that much of his
"success" was due to illegal acts which preyed upon both
those who invested their money with Drexel's brokers,
and on the U.S. economy as a whole.

The attempt by Dershowitz to dismiss Milken's
criminality by alleging that he was the victim of an "anti-

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Semitic cabal" was vintage ADL; In much the same way
that the League cut its teeth defending Lower East Side
gangsters against the crackdown by New York City Po-
lice Commissioner Theodore Bingham by libeling the
commissioner as an unrepentant "anti-Semite," Dershow-
itz and other ADL mouthpieces branded Milken's accus-
ers with the same devastating label.

The Dershowitz defense of Milken let slip a very
important secret: Milken and his Wall Street allies had
replaced the pinstripe-suited and machinegun-toting
gangsters of Prohibition as the lions of organized crime.
It was Meyer Lansky's dream come true: to insulate his
organized crime successors as "untouchables" byputting
them in the driver's seat of the U.S. economy. And the
ADL was on hand every step along the way;

Recycling Narco-Dollars

When Milken, fresh out of the Wharton School of Eco-
nomics at the University of Pennsylvania, first presented
his theories on the profitability of high-yield bonds (also
known as junk bonds) to skeptical traders at Drexel
Burnham in the early 1970s, he found few takers. After
the dual shocks of Nixon's August 1971 order severing
the remaining link between the dollar and gold, and
Kissinger's 1973 oil hoax, Wall Street was looking for
stability, and the major investment firms were quite con-
servative in their investments.

The 1976 election of Jimmy Carter, however, initi-
ated a process of economic degeneration that led to
many changes in how Wall Street conducted its business,
changes which cleared the way for Milken and his allies
to unleash their financial experiments on the nation.
Already, the stage had been set by the mid-1970s'

ADL, JUNK BOND BANDITS RIP OFF AMERICA 55

Kissinger-engineered oil hoax, which led to skyrocketing
petroleum prices and a flood of what came to be known
as "petro-dollars" into the American banking system. The
"petro-dollars" of the seventies paved the way for the
narco-dollar invasion of the 1980s.

The appointment of Paul Volcker as chairman of the
Federal Reserve Board in 1979 was a watershed in the
process of opening the U.S. economy for wholesale loot-
ing. Volcker raised interest rates to the highest sustained
levels in U.S. history. These high interest rates squeezed
bank profits even further, as the cost of borrowing money
from the Fed went through the roof.

The only solution to this crisis, most bankers con-
cluded, was to deregulate the banking system and
thereby transform it into the newest safe haven for illegal
cash. By the time Congress passed the Garn-St Germain
Act in 1982, the U.S. banking system had been com-
pletely opened to foreign flight capital, and banks and
savings and loan institutions ( S&Ls ) were given the green
light for the first time ever to invest directly in real estate,
junk bonds, and many other speculative ventures which
had been previously prohibited.

One big advocate of total deregulation was then-
Vice President George Bush, who was the chairman Of
President Reagan's blue ribbon task force on deregula-
tion. Under his and Volcker's direction, most antitrust
legislation was struck down, thus allowing the huge
mergers and takeovers of the 1980s to occur, with funds
raised by Milken's networks.

Milken and Junk Bonds

With Volcker at the Fed running interference for the
drug bankers, and with deregulators in the Executive

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Branch striking down protective regulations in conjunc-
tion with their congressional allies, the doors were
opened for bringing the offshore drug profits back into
the United States.

And it was Michael Milken and his domination over
the junk bond market which provided the mechanism
by which the funds would be laundered.

Junk bonds offered an ideal way to repatriate drug
money and other illicit funds. From his promotion of
junk bonds in the mid-1970s, Milken built up a network
of "corporate raiders" around him, many of whom had
organized crime connections. They had excess dollars,
money which they used initially to buy real estate, restau-
rants, casinos, and other cash-based businesses ideally
suited for washing money. However, as the drug trade
flourished, these traditional means of laundering money
became inadequate. They needed bigger, more expen-
sive targets.

Again, it was Milken who provided these targets.
During a brainstorming session with the brass at Drexel
Burnham, Milken won over CEO Fred Joseph to the idea
of using junk bonds to fund corporate takeovers. The
same raiders who had been purchasing junk bonds could
use their money to take over large corporations, espe-
cially corporations with a large cash flow, such as food,
beverage, and tobacco companies. Milken would sell
junk bonds to part of his network of raiders, who would
use their illicit funds to purchase the junk bonds. The
money raised from the sale of the junk bonds would
provide the funds for another raider to buy the company.
Then, the new owner could mix in (i.e., launder) further
drug revenues with the cash flow of his newly purchased
company.

ADL, JUNK BOND BANDITS RIP OFF AMERICA 57

One assistant U.S. attorney who has been building
cases against money laundering for years, said that this
process makes it very difficult to trace the initial funds.
"To start with," he said, "these transactions [the take-
overs] are very difficult to follow. But when you start
using companies with heavy cash flows, which are ideal
for money laundering, it becomes almost impossible."

U.S. tax laws also favored use of junk bond sales for
takeovers. Under provisions of the corporate tax code,
interest paid on debt is deductible, while dividends re-
ceived from stock holdings are not The tax laws favor
those raiders who take over firms through generating
huge debt responsibilities, while penalizing those who
act to increase profits through investments which in-
crease productivity.

Huge tax liabilities were thus evaded through the
debt-backed takeovers financed through junk bonds. In
addition to his network of raiders, who to a man enjoyed
long-term relationships with the ADL, Milken's operation
could not have succeeded without the aid of the finest
lawyers dirty money could buy. While there were many
firms which offered they help, three stand out and all
three are deep into the ADL circuit:

• Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison.
Founder Seymour Rifkind served as an adviser to one of
Milken's leading raiders, Ronald Perelman. Rifkind was
counsel to the Golding family, which Perelman married
into. The grandfather of Perelman's first wife Faith Gol-
ding, was a founder of the ADL's Sterling National Bank.
Rifkind joined the board of Perelman's company MacAn-
drew & Forbes, which he used as a vehicle to take over
Pantry Pride and Revlon, two of the country's largest
consumer-goods outfits.

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Rifkind was also on the board of Revlon, even while
it was being targeted by Perelman. Rifkind protege Ar-
thur Liman would serve on Milken's defense team follow-
ing his 1989 indictment for insider trading. Liman joined
the Milken team fresh from a stint as chief counsel to the
House of Representatives' Iran-Contra panel, in which
capacity he helped cover up the ADL's pivotal role in
that covert criminal program.

■ Skadden Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom. Senior
partner Joseph Flom has been at the center of every
major takeover during the 1970s and 1980s. According
to Connie Brack, author of Predator's Ball, and a leading
expert on takeovers, Flom and Martin Iipton of Wachtell,
Lipton "virtually had created the takeover business in
the seventies." Anyone looking for a takeover target hired
either Flom or Upton; those firms which became targets
would hire the other one for "protection."

According to one prosecutor who worked on the
Wall Street fraud cases in the late 1980s, "these two law
firms were just like the 'insurance business' run by the
mob — if you don't get insurance by hiring one of them,
you might get targeted." Mob lawyer and former ADL
National Chairman Kenneth Bialkin joined Skadden Arps
in 1988.

• Wachtell, Lipton.

Milken's Monsters

Once George Bush's task force eliminated the regulatory
measures which had protected American enterprises and
corporations from sharks and looters, and with teams of
lawyers in place to defend them, it was time for Milken
to unleash his raiders.

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During the decade of the 1980s, more than $1.5
trillion was diverted into corporate takeovers and lever-
aged buyouts (LBOs). Of this amount, more than $60
billion went direcdy into the pockets of the investment
bankers, the "dealmakers" (i.e., the "raiders"), and their
attorneys.

Henry Kravis, one of the leading dealmakers of the
1980s, exploited his close ADL ties to raise money for
the takeover antics of his firm, Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts
(KKR). Once Drexel Burnham decided to use junk bonds
to finance takeovers, the Kravis-Milken connection was
a natural.

Milken and his raider networks provided billions of
dollars to help finance KKR's takeovers. Henry Kravis'
KKR was created in 1976 with $120,000. By 1990, it
had borrowed $58 billion from banks, S&Ls, insurance
companies and pension funds, to take over more than
35 companies, While cousins Henry Kravis and George
Roberts are now worth more than $500 million each,
the firms they took over have been loaded up with debt,
threatening the investments made by S&Ls, insurance
companies, and pension funds.

To pay this debt, the firms were asset-stripped, and
forced to close down factories, throwing hundreds of
thousands of people onto unemployment lines. Many of
these deals resulted in bankruptcies, forcing the federal
government to cover the losses when the bankrupted
firm was taken over, by borrowing from a federally in-
sured bank, S&L or pension fund.

While the new management created by the takeover
was dismantling the company to pay the debt generated
to buy it, the raiders came away with huge profits. Milken

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alone received a $550 million bonus from Drexel in
1986, and he doled out another $150 million in bonuses
to his team.

Working hand in hand with Milken in the looting of
America were a collection of figures with close links to
both organized crime apd the ADL Collectively, they
were given the name "Milken's Monsters" by one of their
most notorious members, Meshulam Riklis. Riklis, the
front man for the ADL's "Minneapolis Mafia," had been
the middle-man in the Vesco-Bialkin takeover of Invest-
ors Overseas Service,

The Monsters were Milken's first followers, those
who saw in his promotion of junk bonds the means by
which they could launder funds, while simultaneously
generating the leverage to take over major corporations,
which would further facilitate their laundering. Many of
them began by purchasing insurance companies, which
in turn became major purchasers of junk bonds. In the
early stages of Milken's ascendancy, the Monsters rou-
tinely passed funds back and forth among themselves,
buying issues of junk bonds offered by each other's insur-
ance companies. This first group of Monsters included:

• Carl Lindner, who took over Cincinnati's Provi-
dent Bank in 1966. He then acquired Great American, a
property and casualty insurance company, which oper-
ated as a subsidiary of the financial holding company
American Financial Corp. In 1974, when Lindner was
just beginning his relationship with Milken, he was under
investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commis-
sion (SEC) for violating anti-fraud and anti-manipulation
regulations.

We have already encountered Lindner as the United
Brands owner who joined with Edmund Safra in staking

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out the biggest claims in Amex. Lindner and his "Purple
Gang" partner Max Fisher literally took over United
Brands over the dead body of CEO Eli Black, who myste-
riously fell or jumped out of a window of the Pan Am
building in New York City, while in the midst of fighting
the Lindner grab.

Black's son, Leon Black, was placated by a lucrative
job as one of Milken's top allies, as a "strategic planner"
at Drexel. It was Leon Black who in 1979 helped Milken
convince Drexel CEO Fred Joseph that Drexel should
use its clout from junk bonds to back the raiders in
takeovers. Black said the raiders are the "robber barons
of the future... [TJhese are the guys who are building
empires."

Lindner soon became Drexel's biggest client, in
both trading and corporate finance. He was represented
by Peter Fishbein of Kaye, Scholer, a law firm which
serves as official outside counsel to the ADL's Sterling
Bank. Fishbein has been an ADL officer since 1970. In
1992, federal regulators banned Fishbein from ever hav-
ing any dealings with banks or any other financial institu-
tions, as the result of a probe that linked him and the law
firm to a coverup of S&L looting by Lincoln Savings and
Loan's Charles Keating.

• Saul Steinberg, who started a computer leasing
business, Leasco, in 1961, shortly after graduation from
college. He was backed up in his early takeovers by
Sanford Weill, a leader of Wall Street's "New Crowd"
who was named ADL's Man of the Year in 1981. Weill's
lawyer at the time was the ADL's next national chairman,
Kenneth Bialkin. With Weill's backing, Steinberg took
over Reliance Insurance Co., which he used to make a
play for New York's Chemical Bank in 1969.

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After taking over Reliance, Steinberg brought in Bial-
kin's law firm, Willkie, Farr and Gallagher to represent it
The Saul Steinberg Foundation is also represented by
Bialkin's firm. It donates heavily to the ADL.

• Mesbulam Riklis, who spent much of the 1970s
under investigation by the SEC and U.S. Customs Service
narcotics officials. Riklis used Rapid American, a con-
glomerate which included International Playtex, Schen-
ley Industries, Lerner Shops, and RKO-Stanley Warner
Theatres, to finance his raids.

Shortly after Riklis took, Rapid American private,
Lindner and Steinberg followed suit, with American Fi-
nancial and Reliance respectively. The Riklis Family
Foundation has contributed heavily to the ADL, ac-
cording to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) documents.

• Laurence Tisch, whose insurance company CNA
was a frequent investor in junk bonds issued by Milken.
His Tisch Foundation has provided funds for the ADL.

Lindner, Steinberg, Riklis, and Tisch all invested
heavily in each other's offerings. For example, Carl Lind-
ner, through American Financial, was the second largest
shareholder in Steinberg's Reliance and in Tisch's Loews
Corp., as well as a major shareholder in Riklis' Rapid
American. When Milken needed to raise funds, any one
of these four could be counted on for quick bucks.

The Monsters Unleashed

There were others from the same organized crime net-
works who joined the Monsters. Victor Posner, who
operates out of rundown offices in Miami Beach, made a
fortune in real estate in the 1930s and 1940s. Like many
of the oldtimers in the Milken-ADL stable, he, too, was
reputed to have been a financial partner of Meyer Lansky.

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Posner, who like Meshulam Riklis engaged in "creative
financing" before hooking up with Milken, was forced to
sign a consent decree with the SEC over allegations that
he misused pension funds from Sharon Steel, a firm he
looted in the 1970s.

Ronald Perelman, another of Milken's raiders, has
deep ties to the ADL Perelman married Faith Golding,
whose grandfather founded Sterling National Bank. Mac-
Andrews & Forbes was the vehicle used by Perelman to
take over Pantry Pride, with financing from Milken. He
then used Pantry Pride to take over Revlon, financed
again by Milken, and -advised by Skadden Arps' Joe Flom.

With the same network of advisers and some inside
political help, Perelman was able to take advantage of
the S&L asset giveaway known as the Southwest Plan, in
which he received the assets of six shut down Texas
S&Ls for a nominal fee, while receiving a $900 million
tax credit to cut his liabilities from the Revlon takeover.
When Perelman divorced Golding, his lawyer was mob
attorney Roy Cohn.

Up until he died of AIDS in the late 1980s, Cohn
maintained intimate, behind the scenes ties to the ADL
According to internal ADL documents, Cohn was never
placed on the League's directorate out of fear that the
ADL would lose the financial backing of many prominent
ex-Communists, who still detested Cohn for his antics
during the 1950s Joe McCarthy Red Purges.

Another of Milken's raiders was Nelson Peltz, who
bankrupted his family's frozen food business and was
personally close to bankruptcy when he obtained Mil-
ken's backing to take a 9.5% share of Sterling Bancorp
in 1980. Next, Milken helped Peltz and partner Peter
May with a takeover of Triangle Industries, which they

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then used to leverage a $456 million bid for National
Can, financed completely by junk bond sales by Milken.

In these cases, and hundreds more, Milken provided
the financing by which the raiders took over corporate
America. With almost unlimited funds, Milken bragged
to an associate, "We're going to tee-up GM, Ford, and
IBM. And make them cringe."

Milken's confidence came from the knowledge that
behind all his investment wizardry stood a pool of nearly
$6.25 trillion — the gross profits of the international dope
trade from 1978-1990. Milken never owned up to his
sources of capital. At the peak of his power, he would
simply dash off "highly confident letters" informing take-
over targets that he would be able to generate whatever
amount of liquidity would be needed to buy out their
companies.

Milken's other source of confidence was his deep
connection to the ADL. Milken believed that by pouring
money into the League's coffers, he would be forever
"untouchable."

In 1987, for example, the Milken Family Fund gave
$28,000 to the ADL Foundation-Christian Rescuers Proj-
ect, and $10,250 to the ADL Foundation, in addition to
a grant to the ADL of $344,000. The same foundation
gave the ADL $29,000 in 1990.

The Capital Foundation, also under Milken's control,
approved $1,245 million to the ADL for "future payment"
in the year ending Nov. 30, 1989.

Library of Congress

At a Ku Klux Klan meeting, circa 1915, candidates for member-
ship are received.

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5 Colluding With
Terrorists

In December 1985, then-FBI Director Wil-
liam Webster, speaking at the National Press Club in
Washington, D.C, admitted that a "Jewish underground"
had emerged as a serious terrorist threat to the United
States during the preceding twelve months. Indeed, over
the course of 1985, the Jewish Defense League (JDL)
had been responsible for a string of sophisticated bomb-
ings that left two people dead, a dozen others seriously
wounded, and caused millions of dollars in property
damage.

Alex Odeh, the head of the California branch of the
Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (AADC),
had been killed when, a bomb went off at the group's
Santa Ana office. Seven other people were hospitalized
in the attack. Tscherim Soobzokov, a victim of the Justice

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Department's Nazi-hunting Office of Special Investiga-
tions (OSI), had also died when a booby trap bomb blew
up his home in Paterson, N.J. A Boston police officer,
responding to a JDL bomb threat at the local office of
AADC, was crippled for life when a pipe bomb blew up
as he was attempting to defuse it.

In each of these instances, the bomb attacks have
been preceded by noisy public demonstrations and in-
flammatory press statements by Mordechai Levy, the
leader of a JDL splinter group, the Jewish Defense Organi-
zation (JDO).

Although FBI boss Webster left his National Press
Club audience with the impression that the so-called
"Jewish underground" was a mysterious and amorphous
outfit about which the FBI had little information, in truth,
the Bureau had an exhaustive profile of the key personnel
and their mode of operation. FBI agents on the scene of
the Santa Ana, Calif, murder of Alex Odeh knew the
identities of the three men who planted the bomb before
Odeh's body was even removed from the murder scene.
The killers were longtime JDL members Andy Green,
Keith Fuchs and Bob Manning The American-born trio
were residents of an Israeli kibbutz in the occupied terri-
tories called Kiryat Arba. Kiryat Arba was a training camp
and safehouse for the JDL and its Israeli affiliate, the Kach
Party.

The FBI listed Fuchs, Green and Manning as suspects
in a total of 25 terrorist attacks inside the United States.
Fuchs had been jailed in Israel in 1983 for firing a Soviet-
made AK-47 rifle at a busload of Arabs on the West Bank.
Manning had served time in jail in the United States for
bombing the home of an Arab-American activist When
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before the Odeh murder, they were already under FBI
surveillance.

It's no wonder that FBI Director Webster was not
anxious to discuss details with the room full of reporters
at the National Press Club. The Bureau had been in a
position to prevent the bombing of the Santa Ana AADC
office and they had flubbed it.
Or worse?

At the same time that the "Jewish underground" was
conducting its bombing spree from coast to coast, the
FBI was relying increasingly on the ADL for information
about extremist groups! This was the same ADL that
would join with the KGB and the East German Stasi in
covering the trail of the assassins of Sweden's head of
state, Olof Palme.

Even more to the point, this was the same ADL that
was instrumental in the creation and deployment of such
diverse terrorist groups as the JDL and the Ku Klux Klan!

According to Robert Friedman, the biographer of
JDL founder Rabbi Meir Kahane, the militant Jewish
group was controlled from its founding days by a secret
three-person committee made up of future Israeli Prime
Minister and Mossad operations chief Yitzhak Shamir,
right-wing Israeli parliamentarian Geula Cohen, and
Brooklyn ADL Chairman Bernard Deutch.

It was at a December 1969 meeting between Cohen
and Kahane, arranged by Deutch, that the JDL launched
its campaign of terror and intimidation against Soviet
diplomats in New York and Washington, aimed at forcing
the Soviets to loosen up their emigration laws for Jews.
In the early days, before JDL head Kahane hooked up
with mobster Joe Colombo, and many JDLers began fund-
ing their terrorist operations by selling dope or running

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syndicate shakedown operations, ADL man Deutch had
been the moneybags behind the Jewish militants.
Deutch' s involvement with the JDL was such a well-kept
secret that his Kahane links remained virtually unknown
until 1991.

Just as the B'nai B'rith had quietly steered other
Jewish-American groups to smuggle arms into Russia on
the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution, the ADL ran the
"Jewish underground" from behind the scenes, often
going through the motions of publicly denouncing the
JDL violence to make sure that no direct links were ever
surfaced.

ADL's 'Ku Klutz Klanners'

Mordechai Levy, the leader of the JDL splinter group that
managed to show up on the doorsteps of Alex Odeh and
Tscherim Soobzokov on the eves of their assassinations,
maintained direct and frequent contact with the ADL's
Fact Finding Division head, Irwin Suall. Just two weeks
before the AADC's Washington, D.C. office was blown
upon Nov. 29,1985, Levy had appeared as the featured
speaker at a press conference hosted by the Federation
of Jewish Organizations of Greater Washington, an um-
brella group led by both the ADL and B'nai B'rith, to
present a list of "enemies of the Jewish people." AADC
was among the groups listed.

On more than one occasion, Levy's provocateur
antics nearly exposed the ADL's hand in fomenting do-
mestic violence.

On Feb. 16, 1979, Levy, using the pseudonym
"James Guttman," filed an application with the U.S. Park
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a rally. The rally permit sought by Levy/Guttman was not
filed in the name of the JDL. Levy was posing as a leader
of the American Nazi Party, seeking a permit for a Ku
Klux Klan and Nazi Party rally at Independence Hall, the
site of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

According to the rally permit, Levy was planning a
"white power rally, to show white masses unity of white
race, and to show the world niggers and Jews are cow-
ards." Among the paraphernalia Levy listed on the appli-
cation were: "swastikas, banners, Nazi uniforms, KKK
paraphernalia ... will burn cross, swastika picket signs
saying 'Hitler was right — gas commie Jews."'

Working out of the Philadelphia offices of the Jewish
Defense League, Levy organized local chapters of the
KKK and neo-Nazi groups to attend the Independence
Hall rally. In the case of the Trenton, N.J. KKK, Levy had
an inside track. James Rosenberg, also known as "Jimmy
Mitchell" and "Jimmy Anderson" — a full-time paid em-
ployee of the ADL Fact Finding Division — had success-
fully infiltrated the local chapter of the Klan.

Rosenberg had recently attempted unsuccessfully
to get some of the local KKKers to blow up the Trenton
headquarters of the National Association for the Adr
vancement of Colored People (NAACP). At the same
time he was posing as "James Guttman," neo-Nazi, Levy
was also mobilizing the Jewish community and every
ragtag left-wing radical group in the greater Philadelphia
area to attend a mass demonstration "to confront" the
KKK and Nazis at Independence Hall. All the ingredients
were there for a serious riot — courtesy of the ADL.

Fortunately, word of Levy's scam on the Park Service
leaked out to the Philadelphia press. After one Philadel-

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phia newspaper ran a banner headline "Nazi Rally-Rouser
Really Jewish," the Park Service yanked the permit Levy's
ADL handlers ordered him to lay low for a while.

After all, there was no need to jeopardize Levy or
even Rosenberg's standing as professional agents provo-
cateur inside the racist right-wing. The ADL had plenty
of other aces up their sleeves, and not all of them were
Jewish infiltrators.

Goodman, Cheney, Schwerner —
and the ADL

•

One of the most shocking instances of racist violence
during the civil rights battles in the South of the U.S.
during the 1960s was the execution-style murders of
three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Miss, in 1964.
The murders of Andrew Goodman, Robert Cheney and
Mitchell Schwerner sent shock waves across America
and the world, as many people began to realize for the
first time that the Confederacy, far from being dead, was
very much alive and very much committed to rolling
back the tide of equal rights for all races — at least in the
Deep South.

True to its historical roots in the Southern Jurisdic-
tion of the Scottish Rite Freemasonry and in the original
Confederate secessionist plot, the ADL — contrary to its
own published propaganda — lined up squarely with the
Klan where it counted the most: with its checkbook.

One particularly sordid instance of collusion be-
tween the ADL and the KKK came to light in a hail of
bullets on the night of June 30, 1968 in Meridian, Miss.,
outside the home of ADL official Meyer Davidson.

When the smoke cleared, a local schoolteacher
named Kathy Ainsworth lay dead, and a second man,

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Thomas A. Tenants III, lay dying after being hit with
over 70 bullets fired by 22 local police and FBI agents.
Miraculously, Terrants survived the attack.

Terrants and Ainsworth, both local Klan members,
had been set up. They went to Davidson's home that
night to plant a bomb on his doorstep, not knowing that
the leader of their own KKK chapter had betrayed them,
and that a small army of police and FBI sharpshooters
was waiting in the bushes to ambush them.

The entire affair had been staged by the ADL. The
agent provocateur inside the local KKK chapter who set
up Terrants and Ainsworth was one of the killers of
Goodman, Cheney and Schwerner. Alton Wayne Roberts
was out on bail awaiting his trial, along with six other
members of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, for
the Philadelphia, Miss, murders when, in the early spring
of 1968, he cut a deal with the ADL's regional director,
Adolph Botnick. The New Orleans-based Botnick had
been a longstanding friend of the late Guy Bannister, the
former FBI special agent implicated by District Attorney
Jim Garrison in the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy.

Botnick, with the blessings of Meridian-based FBI
Special Agent Frank Watts and Meridian police detective
Luke Scarborough, agreed to pay Alton Wayne Roberts
and his brother Raymond Roberts $69,000 to become
the League's paid agents provocateur. $25,000 in un-
marked twenty-dollar bills was hand-delivered from New
Orleans to the Roberts brothers just days before the
Ainsworth-Terrants ambush.

At the time the deal was struck, the White Knights,
led by the two Roberts brothers, had been on a nine-
month bombing spree. The brothers were prime sus-

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pects in ten separate acts of racist violence, in addition
to the Philadelphia murders. Three of these attacks were
directed against synagogues and Jewish leaders in Missis-
sippi.

The Roberts brothers, as per their deal with Botnick,
ordered two of their Klan underlings to deliver the bomb
to Davidson's home. They then tipped off the FBI and
the local police about the exact time the attack would
occur.

In return for their continuing services to the ADL
after the Davidson incident, the brothers were given slap
on the wrist sentences and placed in the FBI's witness
protection program. For his part in the Goodman,
Cheney and Schwerner murders, Alton Wayne Roberts
spent less than three years in jail.

The Meridian incident was classic ADL. The League
used the "racist attack" against Meyer Davidson as a scare
tactic fundraising ploy. The money they raised more than
covered the costs of buying up the two KKKers as their
permanent agents provocateur inside the Klan. The
League parlayed their financing of the Roberts brothers
into an ever-closer relationship with the FBI, which was
delighted to have the ADL finance and deploy two of the
Klan's most violent terrorists.

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6 In Bed With
Communist
Dictators and
Spies

On the day in November 1985 that Israeli
spy Jonathan Jay Pollard was arrested, things went hay-
wire at the ADL's headquarters near United Nations Plaza
in New York City. National Chairman Kenneth Bialkin
immediately flew off to Israel to assess the damage and
to make arrangements for the appropriate American at-
torneys to be brought in to represent not only the jailed
spy, but the other, more senior players in the nominally
Israeli spy ring.

Among the most important of those senior players
was Col. Aviem Sella, an Israeli Air Force war hero who
had been Pollard's recruiter on behalf of the secret Israeli
techno-spy unit, Lekem.

Sella' s cover for his spy recruiting was that he was
in the United States taking graduate courses at New York

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University; and Sella's wife Ruth, a practicing attorney,
reportedly was working on the staff of the ADL's legal
department while the couple lived in New York.

Any published links between the ADL and life Pol-
lard spy apparatus could naturally prove very damaging,
especially in light of the cozy relationship the League
was enjoying with the Reagan White House at the time.

While still in Israel, Bialkin telephoned fellow ADL
man Leonard Garment of the politically powerful law
firm of Dickstein, Shapiro. Garment was then the per-
sonal lawyer for U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese. He
agreed at Bialkin' s urging to represent Sella in the Pollard
matter, despite the obvious, severe conflict of interest.

At the ADL's Washington, D.C. office, Mira Lansky
Boland was also undoubtedly worried that her own links
to Pollard might surface. Lansky Boland had been a class-
mate and pal of Pollard at the graduate school program
in national security affairs at the Fletcher School of Diplo-
macy of Tufts University in Cambridge, Mass. Upon grad-
uation in 1978, both Lansky and Pollard had been imme-
diately placed into sensitive posts in the U.S. intelligence
community. Pollard had gone into Naval intelligence
and had almost immediately begun funneling secrets to
Israel.

Lansky Boland had gone to work for the Central
Intelligence Agency. After a two-year stint with the CIA,
she had transferred to the Pentagon, where she worked
under Dr. Andrew Marshall at the Office of Net Assess-
ments, a little known but powerful unit that prepared
technical assessments of Soviet military capabilities. In
1982, Lansky had left the government to work full-time
for the ADL in Washington.
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gon, she was assigned as the case officer on the- League's
multi-million dollar campaign to smear and jail Lyndon
LaRouche and scores of his associates.

Following the Pollard arrest, Andrew Marshall
would be identified as a suspected senior member of the
Pollard spy ring, although no charges were ever brought
against him and he remains to this day in his post at the
Defense Department To this day, Pentagon officials have
never succeeded in pinning down the identity of the "Mr.
X" who gave Pollard the code numbers of the classified
documents that the Naval intelligence analyst then stole
and passed on to Lekem.

Both Pollard and Lansky had gotten their govern-
ment spy jobs courtesy of Fletcher School professor Uri
Ra'anan. Ra'anan, an Oxford University-trained Middle
East expert, had himself been an Israeli government intel-
ligence operative, posted in New York City and Washing-
ton during the 1950sand 1960s. While serving as a "press
attache" at the Israeli embassy in Washington in the
mid-1960s, Ra'anan had helped set up a unit that would
recruit Israeli spies from the ranks of American business-
men traveling frequently tp the Soviet Union and Eastern
Europe.

That spy unit, which was unearthed in a series of
civil suits beginning in 1967, was housed at the head-
quarters of the B'nai B'rith International Ra'anan's eon-
tact point inside the B'nai B'rith was Philip Klutznick an
honorary national chairman of the ADL who would later
serve as President Jimmy Carter's secretary of com-
merce.

Among the damage control efforts launched by the
ADL in the wake of the Pollard arrest was the planting of
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lard as a loyal American who was also committed to
the security of the state of Israel. Harmless, "friendly
espionage" was the term coined by the League and its
small army of paid agents inside the news media.

Unfortunately, Pollard's spying Was anything but
harmless or friendly.

The Lekem unit, headed by the former chief of Euro-
pean operations for the Mossad, Rafael ("Dirty Rafi")
Eytan, was passing on the most sensitive of the American
national security secrets heisted by Pollard to the Soviet
KGB. In return, Moscow was opening up the pipeline of
Soviet Jews to Israel.

It was treachery of the highest order, and then-
Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger was fully aware
of the magnitude of Pollard's crimes when he asked the
judge to sentence Pollard to life in prison after the spy
agreed to plead guilty. In a 46 -page, classified affidavit
submitted to the judge in the Pollard case, Weinberger
showed that much of the Pollard material wound up in
Soviet hands, and that it would cost the United States
billions of dollars to repair the national security damage
done by the Pollard spy ring.

In fact, of the millions of pages of classified docu-
ments funneled by Pollard, to the KGB, a majority were
of no critical interest to Israel at all.

Whiskey for the Red Dictators

Did Kenneth Bialkin or Mira Lansky Boland, or any of the
other ADL officials who abetted Pollard in his spy work,
know that the pilfered material was going to the KGB?
The answer to that question has never been made public.
To this day, only the players in the espionage operation
know for sure.

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However, it is unquestionably the case that at the
same time the ADL was knee-deep in the Pollard stew,
top ADL officials were working hand in glove with the
Soviet bloc intelligence services on several other proj-
ects that would have devastating consequences for the
United States.

One such ADL "friend of Moscow" was whiskey
baron Edgar Bronfman.

The third-generation Bronfmans had successfully
transformed their fathers' Prohibition-era bootlegging
business into a "legit" whiskey empire, Seagram's. This
transformation had been aided early on by the U.S. Trea-
sury Department, which cut a deal with Sam and Abe
Bronfman at the close of Prohibition, enabling them to
pay several million dollars in "back taxes" in return for
a whitewashing of their decade of big-time crimes.

The Bronfman family came out of the deal as multi-
millionaires— with all their ties to the Lansky syndicate
still intact

Abner "Longie" Zwillman was not the only Prohibi-
tion-era gangster who profited from the old saw, "from
rags to rackets to riches to respectability." By the 1950s,
the Bronfmans' image had been so cleaned up that Edgar
could marry into the "Our Crowd" Loeb family, and his
sister Phyllis could marry Jean Lambert of the Belgian
branch of the Rothschild clan. The Lambert family was
the European connection in Drexel Burnham Lambert.

However, image-polishing is one thing. Reality is
another. As late as 1972, the Montreal, Canada Crime
Commission had issued a report naming Mitchell Bronf-
man as a crime partner of one of the city's biggest gang-
sters, Willy Obront. The pair were implicated in dope
smuggling. Willy and Mitchell owned a nightspot in the

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middle of Meyer Lansky's turf in North Miami called the
Pagoda North, which was a favorite hangout for Vito
Genovese and other big-time hoodlums.

Edgar Bronfman, for his part, sought out some very
peculiar clientele for his family's whiskey business. In
1986, as the Pollard affair was playing out, one of Edgar
Bronfman's assistants at the World Jewish Congress
(Bronfman had taken over the WJC and turned it into an
international arm of the ADL, on whose National Com-
mission he sits) established ties to the brutal Communist
regime in East Germany. Bronfman's Seagram's was made
the exclusive distributor of booze to East Germany's
ruling SED (Communist Party).

In 1988, Edgar Bronfman himself traveled to East
Berlin where he was the guest of honor of SED boss Erich
Honecker and top party official Hermann Axen. On that
trip, Bronfman vowed that he would personally arrange
for the East German leader to make a state visit to Wash-
ington, D.C. to meet with President Ronald Reagan.

Even one year later, with the Berlin Wall and East
German Communism about to collapse, Edgar Bronfman
was back in East Germany again, this time promising to
marshal the resources of the World Jewish Congress and
the ADL to block the reunification of Germany, which
he dubbed a "sellout of socialism." In return for those
efforts, Bronfman was given the highest civilian award
offered by East Germany, the "People's Friendship Medal
in Gold."

Edgar's brother and business partner Charles was
also a true friend of the Honecker dictatorship. As the
head of the Canadian-East German Friendship Society,
he was able to control all passports and visas between
the two countries.

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But there was much more to the Bronfman-East
Germany liaison than a lucrative whiskey contract and a
few medals.

The Palme Affair

On Feb. 28, 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme
was assassinated by a lone gunman on the streets of
Stockholm. Just before his assassination, Palme was in
the process of cracking down on Swedish arms dealers
who were funneling guns to the Nicaraguan Contras and
to the Iranian regime. The Iran-Contra scandal had not
yet broken publicly and Palme's probe threatened to
blow the lid on the entire covert program. Curiously,
many of the guns being sold by the Swedes — with the
collusion of Oliver North, CIA chief William Casey and
the Israelis — were coming from East Germany and other
Soviet bloc states.

Was Palme in the process of unearthing a cynical
East- West collusion, an even nastier reality buried be-
neath the then-unknown Irangate scandal? Had he inad-
vertently stumbled onto the trail of the ADL's own
involvement in this demimonde of gun and drug dealing?

The answer to that question was at least implicitly
given within days of the Palme assassination, when the
ADL joined with the KGB and the East German Stasi
(state security service) in an effort to blame the Palme
murder on Swedish associates of Lyndon LaRouche. ADL
Fact Finding Division chief Irwin Suall, himself an Oxford
University-trained active member of the Socialist Inter-
national, personally flew to Stockholm to fuel the disin-
formation campaign linking LaRouche to the Palme
murder.

Soviet Ambassador Boris Pankin, a major general in

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the KGB who specialized in planting disinformation in
the Western press, directed the Soviet side of the
"LaRouche killed Palme" hoax, while Georgii Arbatov,
the head of the Soviet Academy of Science's U.S A. -Can-
ada Institute, added his voice to those accusing
LaRouche. Ultimately, the Soviet government-owned TV
network aired an hour-long "docudrama" elaborating the
LaRouche lie.

The role of Edgar Bronfman's pals in the East Ger-
man Stasi in the Palme coverup would not surface until
three years later. However, back in August 1989, the
Stockholm daily newspaper Expressen revealed that
Swedish police had bugged the home of a resident KGB
agent and had audiotape evidence that the man knew at
least 24 hours before Palme's murder that the Prime
Minister would be killed.

The pivotal role of the Stasi in the Palme murder
coverup was first revealed in the Aug. 20-26, 1992 edi-
tion of Journalisten, the magazine of the Swedish Jour-
nalists Association, which published ah interview with a
former top Stasi officer named Herbert Brehmer. In that
interview and in a series of subsequent Swedish nation-
wide radio broadcasts, Brehmer confessed that as an
official of Department X (disinformation) of the Stasi, he
had engineered the disinformation campaign blaming
the European Labor Party (ELP), the Scandinavian affili-
ates of Lyndon LaRouche, for the Palme murder.
Brehmer told Journalisten:

"At my desk I drew up the outlines of how the ELP theory
would be conduited into the Swedish police investiga-
tion. The plan was to have a national Swedish newspaper
receive an anonymous telephone tip-off.. . . As an alterna-

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tive, the information would go directly to one of the
special tip-off phones made available by the police. The
content would be along the lines that the caller 'knew
that the ELP had committed the crime.' In addition, he
or she had 'witnessed hectic activity in the ELP headquar-
ters in the night.' Nothing was really true, but it sounded
well-informed and credible."

Indeed. The 1986 Stasi-manufactured disinforma-
tion was conduited into the U.S. media through the ADL.
NBC-TV ran the story as a leading news item on their
evening news broadcast, interviewing ADL official Suall
as part of their coverage. Ultimately, the US. Justice
Department would use the Palme disinformation to jus-
tify a massive paramilitary police raid against LaRouche's
home and offices of his associates in Leesburg, Va. in
October 1986.

The ADL and the OSI

The "LaRouche killed Palme" hoax was no isolated in-
stance of Edgar Bronfman and the ADL teaming up with
a Communist secret police agency to target a political
enemy or ply a lucrative business scam. It was standard
operating procedure.

According to syndicated columnists Rowland Evans
and Robert Novak, on Jan. 23, 1989 Bronfman hosted a
secret meeting at his New York City penthouse to forge
what the columnists dubbed a "Jews for grain" deal be-
tween the Soviet Union and Israel. Also present at the
gathering was Dwayne Andreas, the chairman of the Ar-
cher Daniels Midland (ADM) grain cartel, and a long-
standing ally and financial backer of the ADL. The Wall
Street Journal had dubbed Andreas "Gorbachov's closest
pal in the West." At congressional hearings, Andreas iden-

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tified former ADL National Chairman Ben Epstein as the
man who taught him all he knew about politics.

The Bronfman-Andreas deal was straightforward: In
return for vast quantities of dirt-cheap grain from ADM
and other U.S. -based grain cartels, the Soviet government
would permit the mass exodus of Soviet Jews to Israel.

It was an updated version of the Pollard espionage
affair, in which US. military secrets were swapped for
controlled Soviet Jewish migration to Israel. The invari-
ant in the two efforts was the central role of the ADL

As part of the Bronfman-Andreas deal, the Soviet
KGB teamed up with the ADL and Bronfman's World
Jewish Congress (WJC) to foment a diplomatic breach
between the Reagan administration and Austrian Presi-
dent Kurt Waldheim, the former secretary general of the
United Nations, line KGB manufactured and the ADL-
WJC conduited phony evidence that Waldheim had been
a top Nazi war criminal during World War II. U.S. Attor-
ney General Ed Meese, still employing the legal services
of ADL fellow traveler Leonard Garment, bit on the
forged material and declared Waldheim persona non
grata in the United States.

The purpose of the smear job was to shut down
Austria as a way-station for Soviet Jews coming out into
the West. In the past, once Soviet Jews landed on Austrian
soil, they were granted political refugee status, which
then enabled them to settle in any country of their choos-
ing. The majority either stayed in Western Europe or
found their way to the United States. Very few went to
Israel voluntarily. With Austria shut down, Bronfman
and Gorbachov worked out alternative routes through
Warsaw Pact states and eventually set up direct flights

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from the Soviet Union to Israel, to ensure that the Soviet
refugees had no choice as to where they would live.
By the time Bronfman and Andreas forged their
"Jews-for grain" deal with Gorbachov in early 1989, the
ADL had just about perfected their use of forged KGB
documents to smear the entire Eastern European com-
munity in the United States as closet wartime Nazis.

As early as 1979, the ADL had played a pivotal role in
getting legislation through the U.S. Congress establishing
the Office of Special Investigations (OSI), a special Nazi-
hunting unit inside the Criminal Division of the Justice
Department. ADL asset Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman had
sponsored the bill, which effectively stripped naturalized
American citizens of Central European and Ukrainian
descent of their constitutional rights by providing for
automatic denaturalization and deportation without due
process, if the OSI could produce evidence that they had
been tied to the Nazis during World War II.

And where did the lion's share of this evidence come
from, 40 years after the end of World War II? From the
Soviet archives !

The ADL-sponsored OSI provided Moscow with a
foot in the door to the American judicial system. For the
first time ever, Soviet documents and witnesses were
given fall standing in U.S. court proceedings, no ques-
tions asked: While a handful of the people targeted by,
the ADL-OSI may have been low-level Nazi sympathizers
or assets daring the war, many innocent people fell vic-
tim to the KGB's sophisticated forgers, courtesy of the
ADL and their friends at the Justice Department's OSI:

• Karl Linnas, falsely accused of Nazi collaboration,
was stripped of his American citizenship and shipped off

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to the Soviet Unions where he died in a prison, reportedly
from a heart attack.

• Tscherim Soobzokov, accused of working with
the Nazis in his native Belorussia, beat the OSI and even
won a lucrative out-of-court libel suit against the New
York Times. He was then murdered by a Jewish Defense
League bomb attack on his Paterson, N.J. home in 1985.

•Dr. Arthur Rudolph, a celebrated German-Ameri-
can rocket scientist who contributed greatly to Ameri-
ca's space program, was falsely accused by the ADL and
OSI of torturing Jews at the Peenemunde research facility
in wartime Germany. Rather than lose his lifetime pen-
sion with the National Aeronautics and Space Administra-
tion (NASA) and throw his family into poverty, he re-
nounced his U.S. citizenship and returned to West
Germany. After a three-year probe based on the same
evidence passed on by the East German and Soviet au-
thorities to the OSI, West German prosecutors con-
cluded that there was no evidence against Dr. Rudolph.

•John Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian- American retired
auto worker accused of being the Treblinka concentra-
tion camp mass-murderer "Ivan the Terrible," was
stripped of his citizenship and hauled off to Israel to stand
trial. It was the biggest show trial since the proceedings
against Adolph Eichmann, broadcast in its entirety live
on Israeli national television. Demjanjuk was convicted
and sentenced to death by hanging. Through unflagging
efforts by his family and friends, Demjanjuk eventually
gathered evidence showing that the OSI had suppressed
evidence proving that another man had been identified
as the real "Ivan." The case is now pending before both
the Israeli Supreme Court and the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court
of Appeals in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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The ADL's liaison to OSI, Elliot Wells, in a signed
letter to the editors of the Washington Post, demanded
that Demjanjuk not be set free. Using the kind of stilted
logic that would make the KGB blush, Wells argued that
even if Demjanjuk is innocent of the Treblinka charges,
he must be guilty of some other war crimes, and there-
fore should be held in custody until new evidence can
be manufactured.

EIRNS/Stuart Lewis EIRNS/Stuart Lewis

Members of the Get LaRouche Task Force, top left to right:
Irwin Suall, Kent Robinson; bottom left to right, Dennis King,
Mira Lansky Boland.

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An early March 1986 — within days of the
assassination of Sweden's Prime Minister Olof Palme,
ADL Fact-Finding department chief Irwin Suall was en
route to Stockholm. An Oxford University-trained Fabian
Socialist, Suall was the ADL's longtime top dirty trickster.
Since 1978, with the publication of the book Dope, Inc,
Suall's efforts had been almost obsessively focused
against Lyndon LaRouche, the American political econo-
mist who had commissioned the anti-drug study pub-
lished by EIR.

Suall's trans -Atlantic voyage to Stockholm was in
pursuit of that obsession.

Working in tandem with the East German secret
police (Stasi), the Soviet KGB, Swedish socialists and
NBC-TV, Suall helped launch the disinformation cam-

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paign blaming LaRouche and his Swedish collaborators
in the European Labor Party for the Palme assassination.

Just as Suall's efforts were beginning to bear fruit
with a series of "LaRouche killed Palme" smear stories in
the U.S., Swedish and Soviet press, the ADL trickster was
suddenly confronted with a major crisis:

On March 16, 1986, two LaRouche-backed candi-
dates— Mark Fairchild and Janice Hart — won the Illinois
Democratic Party primary elections for lieutenant gover-
nor and secretary of state, respectively. The LaRouche
candidates' victories were no fluke. LaRouche-backed
candidates had been winning between 20-40 percent of
the vote in Democratic primary elections in different
parts of the country since the early 1980s. A leading
Democratic Party pollster had written frantic messages
to the Illinois state party chairman warning about a
LaRouche upset months before the election.

Not surprisingly, the upset victory by the LaRouche
slate was electrifying. The Wall Street and Freemasonic
circles who own the ADL were Shocked into action.

Suall hurried back to New York City where he over-
saw the preparation and mass distribution of a violent
ADL smear sheet against LaRouche. Over the next few
months, according to records of the Federal Election
Commission, over 6,000 copies of the ADL libel — at a
cost of at least $10,000- were circulated to every mem-
ber of Congress, 1,580 news outlets and other govern-
ment offices and opinion makers. Tens of thousands erf
media attacks against LaRouche — branding him as every-
thing from an anti-Semite, to a KGB agent, to a neo-
Nazi to an international terrorist — were published in the
United States alone. Among some anti-Zionist lobby and
Third World-circles, the ADL even accused LaRouche of

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being a closet "mole" for the Israeli Mossad! The invariant
in all the contradictory slanders conjured up by the ADL
was to scare people away from the LaRouche political
movement.

The ADL smear campaign was a panicked and fla-
grant violation of its tax-exempt status. It was also a
violation of FEC rules, which prohibit a tax-exempt orga-
nization from engaging in politicking. On June 16, 1987,
the FEC officially acknowledged that the ADL action
against LaRouche was illegal; but a few months later,
the commissioners decided they would take no action
against the League.

The smear campaign was meeting with only modest
political success, although it had a severe effect as finan-
cial warfare. LaRouche-Democrat candidates continued
to do well. In 1988, Claude Jones, a longtime and well
known LaRouche activist, was elected chairman of the
Harris County, Texas Democratic Party, shortly after the
Illinois victories. Harris County, which includes Hous-
ton, is one of the largest electoral districts in the United
States, and a Democratic Party stronghold. Jones beat a
powerful incumbent to take over the party posL

The Washington Post in May 1986-summing up
the consensus among the liberal establishment — editori-
alized that Lyndon LaRouche must be in jail, not on
television, by the. time of the 1988 presidential elections.

An Already Ongoing Frameup Effort

On Oct. 6, 1986 — less than seven months after the Illi-
nois primary — 400 federal, state and county police in-
vaded the offices of the LaRouche-associated Campaigner
Publications in Leesburg, Va. FBI and Virginia State Police
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County SWAT Team. Helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft and
even an armored personnel carrier were held in reserve
at a 4-H fairground a short distance from the farm where
Lyndon LaRouche and his wife were staying, in feet,
recently disclosed government documents demonstrate
Pentagon involvement in the Leesburg raid — specifically
the Special Operations unit of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The mobilization of an invasion force larger than
that used in Grenada in September 1983 to serve two
search warrants and four arrest warrants, was not the
result of over-zealous planning. Since no later than 1982,
Irwin Suall, Mira Lansky Boland (the Jonathan Jay Pollard-
linked CIA agent-turned ADL dirty trickster) and an army
of other ADL agents and assets had been engaged in a
systematic campaign to sic the government on
LaRouche. By the time the raid took place, the goverm-
nent raiding party had been so jacked up by ADL disinfor-
mation that they were expecting to run into a terrorist
armed camp that would make the Irish Republican Army
green with envy.

The March 1986 Illinois upset victory provided the
ADL and its collaborators in what became known as the
Get LaRouche Strike Force with the opportunity and
motive to go all-out.
How did it work?

Since the spring of 1982, according to the ADL's
own published accounts, Suall and company were
closely collaborating with Henry Kissinger, the former
U.S. secretary of state, and longtime LaRouche hater.
In August 1982, Kissinger wrote to then-FBI Director
William Webster the first of a series of personal letters
demanding that the FBI move to shut down the LaRouche
political movement. In a subsequent, more detailed note

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in November, Kissinger's attorney lied that LaRouche
had foreign intelligence ties — a lie calculated to activate
government "active measures" under the guidelines of
Executive Order 12333. E.0. 12333, signed by President
Ronald Reagan in December 1981, gave the CIA, the FBI
and the Pentagon intelligence services broad latitude to
investigate and disrupt groups suspected of working for
hostile foreign governments.

In January 1983, Kissinger's allies on the President's
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) made a
formal request for such an active measures campaign
against LaRouche. The FBI, operating through Judge
Webster and Oliver "Buck" Revell, quickly launched
such an effort.

Ironically, as the Kissinger-ADL wing of the national
security and law enforcement apparatus of the federal
government was activating its illegal war against
LaRouche, President Reagan — with the backing of his
national security adviser Judge William Clark, Defense
Secretary Caspar Weinberger and other senior military
and security advisers — was moving ahead with the Stra-
tegic Defense Initiative, a plan based on a concept ad-
vanced by LaRouche even before the Reagan administra-
tion came into office. According to court testimony in
Roanoke, Va. by Richard Morris, Judge Clark's NSC secu-
rity chief, LaRouche had worked with the Reagan White
House on at least eight national security projects — in-
cluding SDI — most of which are still classified to this
day.

Was this a case of the right hand not knowing what
the left hand was doing? Hardly! The ADL and Kissinger
were painfully aware pf LaRouche's growing influence
within the Reagan administration, and they were out to

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break the rules to shut down all the LaRouche-Reagan
ties.

According to court testimony by the ADL's Mira
Lansky Boland on May 24, 1990 in Roanoke, Va., she
was an active participant from day one in the illegal
government covert operation against LaRouche that led
to the October 1986 raid, and a series of federal and
state criminal prosecutions in Boston; New York City;
Alexandria, Leesburg and Roanoke, Va.; and Los Angeles.

The black propaganda aspect of that covert opera-
tion which we picked up in Stockholm at the beginning
of this chapter was launched at an April 1983 meeting
at the New York City office of Wall Street broker and
self-styled intelligence agent John Train. Mira Lansky Bo-
land was present at that secret meeting, representing the
ADL. National Security Council consultant Roy Godson,
a longtime ally of the ADL, was also present, along with
a dozen journalists and editors from such organizations
as NBC News, Reader's Digest, The New Republic and
Business Week. A CIA funding conduit deeply involved in
the secret Iran-Contra operations, the Smith Richardson
Foundation, provided the cash for the orchestrated
smear campaign against LaRouche.

While much of the anti-LaRouche propaganda
spewed out of NBC, The New Republic, the Wall Street
Journal and Reader's Digest consisted of name-calling
aimed at scaring off active and prospective LaRouche
supporters, enough charges of "terrorism" and "interna-
tional espionage" were thrown in to assure that federal
and state prosecutors would be forced to maintain open
investigative files and, eventually, to launch grand jury
probes.

The "kill phase" of the ADL-led dirty war against

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LaRouche was already well underway when the spring
1986 events in Illinois took place.

Financial Warfare

The ADL-John Train black propaganda campaign was not
merely aimed at discouraging voters from pulling the
levers for LaRouche candidates on election day.

To successfully throw LaRouche in jail — or worse —
the ADL set out to bankrupt the LaRouche publishing
operations and turn some of LaRouche's own supporters
and financial backers against him.

Spending millions of dollars, and working with
groups like the CIA-spawned Cult Awareness Network
(CAN), ADL dirty tricksters targeted thousands of
LaRouche campaign contributors, whose names, ad-
dresses and phone numbers were maintained in public
files at the FEC. The ADL-CAN operators would contact
relatives, financial advisers and friends of the LaRouche
supporters, and literally subject them to scare-tactic be-
havior modification. The techniques used were often
those developed in the secret laboratories of the CIA
and the FBI for use against enemy prisoners of war and
captured spies. Through these highly illegal actions, the
ADL built up a profile list of weak and vulnerable people,
many senior citizens, whose only "crime" was that they
financially supported the legitimate political campaign
activities of Lyndon LaRouche. The names of these tar-
gets were passed on to the Department of Justice's Get
LaRouche Strike Force in a fashion reminiscent of the
worst of the Nazi Gestapo operations.

In May 1988, after 92 days of trial, the first federal
prosecution of Lyndon LaRouche and a half-dozen of his
associates came to a screeching halt when Boston Dis-

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trict Court Judge Robert Keeton declared a mistrial. Evi-
dence of wild government misconduct — implicating Oli-
ver North and Vice President George Bush — had
disrupted the trial, so that the government wanted to be
done with it. As press reports later showed, it had also
convinced the jury that any criminal activity associated
with the case had been committed by the government,
not by Lyndon LaRouche. Prosecution claims of credit
card fraud by LaRouche campaign fundraisers and publi-
cations salesmen had been thoroughly discredited.

The collapse of the first government effort at framing
up Lyndon LaRouche was a direct blow to the ADL. Mira
Lansky Boland and Boston ADL official Sally Greenberg
had been virtually integrated into the prosecution staff of
Assistant U.S. Attorneys John Markham and Mark Rasch.

Although suffering a bad setback in Boston, the ADL-
driven prosecution strike force had already opened up a
second front in its illegal drive to wipe out the LaRouche
movement.

In April 1987, Loudoun County, Va. Deputy Sheriff
Don Moore, a Vietnam War Marine bunkmate of Ollie
North and a secret paid agent of the ADL-CAN, wrote a
patently false affidavit for federal prosecutors, claiming
that LaRouche and company were getting ready to pick
up stakes and go underground to avoid the pending
federal prosecution and the prospect of paying large
fines. The Moore affidavit was then used by then-U.S.
Attorney Henry Hudson to induce a federal bankruptcy
judge to order an involuntary bankruptcy against three
LaRouche-identified companies, including two publica-
tions with a combined circulation of 250,000 readers. In
a highly illegal "hearing" at which no stenographic re-
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the three entities were present, the judge was convinced
to sign the seizure order. The next day, U.S. Marshals
padlocked and seized the same offices that had been
raided six months earlier.

Three years later, the same federal bankruptcy court
fudge, after a full trial of the bankrupty action, reversed
his initial ruling and threw out the involuntary bank-
ruptcy, ruling that the government had filed the petitions
in "bad faith" and had committed "fraud upon the court."
A higher court upheld that ruling, and the government
chose not to appeal.

Why appeal it? The damage had already been done!

With the bankrupting of the LaRouche companies,
federal prosecutors and FBI agents stepped in to advise
thousands of LaRouche supporters that millions of dol-
lars in loans they had made to those companies would
not be paid — unless they cooperated with the govern-
ment railroad of LaRouche.

The claim that money would be paid back if the
"victims" played ball with the government prosecutors
was another Big Lie. Once the printing presses were
shut down, and the publications discontinued under the
government trustees, the companies were penniless. No
money could be paid back — because the government
had taken the viable, successful publishing operations
and driven them into the ground: first, through intensive
ADL propaganda branding LaRouche a monster, and next
through the fraudulent bankruptcy proceeding itself.

In the majority of cases, the LaRouche supporters
knew it was the government, not LaRouche, that was
behind the bankruptcy and their personal losses. The
former supporters who did succumb to the government
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bankers, friends, etc. were already sucked in by the ADL-
CAN dirty war.

Government prosecutors admitted under oath that
Mira Lansky Boland of the ADL had served as the "clear-
inghouse" for trial witnesses in all of the federal and
state prosecutions of LaRouche and his associates. Lansky
Boland worked from the outset with Don Moore, the
Loudoun deputy sheriff who authored and signed the
fraudulent bankruptcy affidavit. In September 1992, Don
Moore was arrested by the FBI for his role in a plot to
kidnap two LaRouche supporters. Moore was working
for the ADL-allied Cult Awareness Network in the kidnap-
ping scheme. That case is scheduled to go to trial at the
end of 1992.

When in December 1988, a federal jury in Alexan-
dria, Va. convicted LaRouche and six associates on con-
spiracy fraud charges stemming from the government
and ADL-instigated bankruptcies, Mira Lansky Boland
was the only non-government official to attend the "vic-
tory party" at the prosecutors' office. The conviction had
been won on the basis of a pretrial order by Judge Albert
V. Bryan, Jr. forbidding defense attorneys from informing
the jury that the government had been responsible for
the bankruptcy. Back in 1987, Bryan had been the judge
who initially upheld that bankruptcy action. At the sen-
tencing of LaRouche and the others in January 1989,
Judge Bryan boasted that Boston trial Judge Robert Kee-
ton "owed him a cigar" for ensuring that LaRouche and
the others were so quickly convicted and shipped off to
prison.

The jailing of LaRouche in what amounted to a thor-
oughly unjust life sentence did not end the ADL drive to
destroy LaRouche and his political movement. The state

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of Virginia, as part of the ADL's Get LaRouche dirty war,
had joined in the feeding frenzy by indicting over 20
LaRouche associates on state charges stemming from the
identical bankruptcy scheme.

In a series of trials in Roanoke, Va., the ADL was
caught red-handed in a judge buying effort. State Judge
Clifford Weckstein, a political protege of Virginia ADL
chief Murray Janus and other top state ADL figures, was
provided with a full collection of ADL smear sheets on
LaRouche by the League; In a series of back and forth
letters released by Weckstein in the trial of one of the
LaRouche defendants, it was revealed that Janus and
other local ADL officials had mooted they would back
Weckstein for a seat on the Virginia State Supreme Court
The implication that his handling of the LaRouche prose-
cutions would be crucial to his future career on the
bench was apparently not lost on the judge. Michael
Billington, a LaRouche associate who had already served
over two years in federal prison as the result of the
Alexandria federal case, Was sentenced by Weckstein to
77 years in state prison on patently phony loan fraud
charges.

EIRNS/Stuart Lewis

Vandalism in a Mt. Airy, Md. cemetery may have been the work
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Peddles the
New Age

In the summer of 1989, the entire world
was reeling in shock and horror over the discovery of a
satanic burial ground on a ranch in Matamoros, Mexico.
Dozens of mutilated, cannibalized corpses were dis-
covered.

The grisly details of the kidnapping and human sacri-
fice of one of the cult's victims, Texas college student -
Marie Kilroy, prompted Texas State legislators to draft a
iaw stiffening the penalties for satanic ritualistic crimes,
and making it a criminal offense to conduct certain oc-
cult rituals. The governor of Texas convened a special
session of the legislature to get the bill passed.

The ADL, while peddling bills all across the country
that would make it a crime to think anti-Semitic
thoughts, launched an all-out effort to defeat the Texas

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crackdown on Satanic crimes, branding the bill "anti-
Semitic"! In its jaded logic, the ADL claimed that, techni-
cally, the bill made it illegal for rabbis to perform circum-
cisions on infants. The vast majority of the Jewish com-
munity in Texas, including many leading rabbis, refused
to buy into the ADL's twisted interpretation, and sup-
ported the bill.

Some people began to smell a rat. And they were

right.

Not only has the League been an integral part of the
organized crime structure that has wrecked America's
youth through the peddling of drugs; but as a pivotal
institution within the Scottish Rite Freemasonry South-
ern Jurisdiction, the ADL has been a part of the century-
old effort to paganize America under a variety of labels:
"secular humanism," "new religions," and, most recently,
"the New Age."

Not surprisingly, as investigators probed the higher
levels of the "New Age" plot, they found that the New
York City Cathedral of St John the Divine, the headquar-
ters of ADL patrons Bishop Paul Moore and Canon Ed-
ward West, was at the very center of the paganization
effort. While nominally part of the Anglican-Protestant
Episcopal persuasion, the Cathedral was actually the un-
derground headquarters of the Luciferian movement in
America.

Killing the Judeo-Christian Tradition

Since 1948, the ADL has devoted over one-third of its
legal efforts to support activity that may rightfully be
called "the plot to kill God." The ADL has filed dozens of
amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefs in legal cases
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have included banning school prayer, banning released
time for religious instruction, banning Christmas carols
and spirituals, banning celebration of Judeo-Christian
holidays, and most recently banning the Bible as unfit for
the classroom; causing federal, state, and local govern-
ments to be "neutral" on religious issues, as well as com-
pelling them to cease participation in any display of art
associated with the Christian religion, whether during a
religious holiday season or other time; and banning pray-
ers in courtrooms, together with religious oaths for
courts and government officials.

While the ADL has concentrated upon uprooting the
traditions of Western Christian civilization from public
life-e.g. by throwing Christianity out the front door of
schools — it has not protested as "New Age religion" has
been ushered in the back door, now to permeate society.
In fact, while condemning any manifestation of Christian-
ity at every turn, the ADL has used First Amendment
arguments in court and elsewhere to defend witchcraft
and peyote (an hallucinogen derived from a type of
cactus) cults.

The ADL has not acted alone in this drive to "pa-
ganize" America. It has enjoyed the assistance erf some
friends in very high places, including the highest court
in the land. It began in earnest on Feb. 10, 1947, when
Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black rendered the majority
opinion in the case of Everson v. Board of Education,
Black, who was a lifelong member of the Ku Klux Klan
and 33rd-Degree member of the Southern Jurisdiction
of Scottish lite Freemasonry, enshrined the following
phrase: "In the words of Jefferson, the clause against
establishment of religion by law was intended to erect
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During the period of time when the attention of the
Court seemed to focus on religion-clause cases, roughly
1949-56, seven members of the Craft served on the Court
along with a former Mason, Justice Sherman Minion.
Masons continued to dominate the Court, while most of
the decisions to uproot Christianity were made, until
1971. The Southern Jurisdiction of Scottish Rite Freema-
sonry, to which the preponderance of Supreme Court
justices belonged from the period of J939 to 1971, is
the self-described "New Age" Jurisdiction.

As Paul A. Fisher aptly demonstrates in his book
Behind the Lodge Door, the original intent of the reli-
gious establishment clause by the Founding Fathers, who
shaped this constitutional instrument, was to guard
against the state's establishing a theocracy of the Roman
cult variety that would persecute those practicing the
tenets of Western Christian civilization upon which the
republic had been founded. Yet, through Justice Black's
"wall" decision in Everson and hundreds of subsequent
federal, state and local rulings, a Manichean religious cult
is on the verge of establishing a "New Age" theocracy in
the U.S. today.

The Founding Fathers were deeply religious, and
whatever problems may have existed in that regard, they
believed that each individual had been created in imago
viva Dei, in the living image of God, with a diyine spark
of reason, which they expressed in the principle that "all
men are created equal under God." The fallacy of the
"wall of separation" cult dogma is shown by the North-
west Ordinance, passed in 1787 and readopted in 1789,
which provided that "religion, morality, and knowledge
being necessary to good, government and the happiness
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forever be encouraged." And, in his Farewell Address
to the nation in 1796, President George Washington
declared that "religion and morality are indispensable
supports [for] political prosperity," and warned that we
could not expect "that national morality can prevail in
the exclusion of religious principle."

Undoubtedly, Justice Hugo Black's masonicaily
dominated Court would have found these sentiments to
be unconstitutional.

As Justice Black's son said of him, he was a man who
"could not whip himself up to a belief in God or the
divinity of Christ, life after death, or Heaven or Hell."
When he first ran for the U.S. Senate, public condemna-
tion compelled Black on July 9, 1925 to "retire from the
Robert E. Lee Klan No. 1, but he closed his letter of
resignation to the Kligrapp [Secretary], Tours In the
Sacred Unbreakable Bond.'"

Having won election, Black participated in a secret
Klan ceremony witnessed by investigative reporter Ray
Sprigle on Sept. 2, 1926, where Senator Black was wel-
comed back to the Klan with a "grand passport" of life
membership at the Birmingham, Ala. state Klan meeting.
At the ceremony, Black swore never to divulge, even
under threat of death, the secrets of the Invisible Empire.
And he said, "I swear I will most zealously and valiantly
shield and preserve by any and all justifiable means and
methods ... white supremacy... All to which I have
sworn by this oath, I will seal with my blood, be Thou
my witness, Almighty God. Amen."

Ironically, although Sprigle's truthful articles, were
carried in all the major papers, it was the two flagship
journals of American liberalism, The Nation and The New
Republic, that chose to believe Black's denials that he

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was a Klan member in the 1920s, in a scandal that contin-
ued after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed
Senator Black to the Supreme Court in 1937.

Fortifying the Wall

The ADL has been among the strongest upholders of
lifelong Ku Klux Klan member and Mason Justice Hugo
Black's "wall of separation" decision, beginning a year
after the 1947 Everson opinion containing this new lan-
guage. A history of that involvement can be found in
the ADL's pamphlet, Friend of the Court 19471982: To
Secure Justice and Fair Treatment for All by Jill Donnie
Snyder and Eric K. Goodman. In the chapter tided "Sepa-
ration of Church and State" we find the following:

"Since 1948, ADL has filed amicus briefs in practically
every major church-state case, consistently arguing for a
strict interpretation of the establishment clause... ADL
continues to work for a strict separation of church and
state, a commitment that dates back to the League's first
involvement in an establishment clause dispute: McCol-
lum v. Board of Education. ... In the Everson opinion
... the Court emphasized in strong language the parame-
ters of the establishment clause. ... ADL stands firmly
committed to a strict separation between church and
state. The wall of separation must be fortified and
strengthened, so that the religious freedom dreamed of
by Jefferson and the other founding fathers, may endure
now and forever, an example to the world."

Among the actions in which the ADL has been the
historic friend of a masonically dominated Court and
of KKKer Justice Black's "wall" reinterpretation of the
establishment clause are:
1) Released time From the 1948 McCollum case

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until the present day, the ADL has fought released time
from schools, which gives a release for students to partic-
ipate in religious education.

One of the most recent cases was Doe v. Human,
which was affirmed when the Supreme Court refused to
hear it, and in which the ADL had filed an amicus brief.
It resulted in the school system of Gravette, Ark. having
to end the practice of released time for religious instruc-
tion in the schools on a voluntary basis requiring parental
approval. In its pamphlet ADL in the Courts: Litigation
Docket 1991, the ADL states that this storytime program
in Gravette "presents at least two inescapable infringe-
ments on the establishment clause-impermissible in-
clusion of religion in the public schools and forbidden
state indoctrination of a particular faith.",

Paul Dee Human, the superintendent, of schools in
Gravette, told a reporter for Executive Intelligence Re-
view, "By such cases the stage is being set for a one-
world religion. Kids are being brainwashed to death by
the New Age religions, and it has become harder and
harder to take a Christian stand.... There is no question
but that the real agenda of groups like the ADL is to usher
in the New Age. The more the New Age is brought in,
the lesser the boundaries on moral action. If it's right
for you, it's right' is the guideline of the New Age."

2) Parochial aid. The question of public aid for
parochial schools was the centerpiece of the Everson
decision written by Justice Hugo Black, and there have
been dozens of parochial aid suits since then. For over
thirty years, one of the ADL's strongest allies in such cases
has been Americans United for Separation of Church and
State. According to the managing editor of The Scottish
Rite Journal, Dr. John W. Boettjer, Sovereign Grand

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Commander C. Fred Kleinknecht relied heavily upon the
staff of Americans United for Separation of Church and
State to write his call to arms in the November 1991
issue defending Jefferson's "wall of separation," which
Kleinknecht calls "the cornerstone of the Constitution."

Boettjer is himself a member of the National Advi-
sory Council of Americans United Against Church and
State, that has worked closely with the ADL Another
collaborator of Americans United is Gregg Ivers, who
wrote the recent ADL call to arms, which parallels that
of Supreme Commander Kleinknecht, tided Lowering
The Wall: Religion and the Supreme Court in the 1980s.

The full import of Justice Black's membership in the
Southern Jurisdiction's New Age religious cult emerges
in a letter that 33rd-Degree Mason and Grand Prior of
the Supreme Council, Scottish Rite, Mcllyar H. Lichliter,
wrote to Justice Harold Burton, two years after Everson
The letter described Lichliter's pilgrimage to the tomb
of Jacques De Molay, who had been Grand Master of the
Knights Templar. De Molay was condemned as a heretic
after Pope Clement V and the French King Phillip le Bel
ordered an investigation, which discovered that upon
initiation into this crusading order, members were re-
quired to spit upon an image of Christ's face. The Tem-
plars were shown to be a Manichean cult, practicing a
form of the Middle Eastern Baphomet paganism as an
initiation into their inner secrets.

After Jacques De Molay was executed in 1314, as
19th-century Scottish Rite Supreme Commander Gen-
eral Albert Pike stated in his book Morals and Dogma,
renegade Templars traveling to Scotland helped King
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part of the ritual of the New Age Southern Jurisdiction,
known as the 30th Degree Knight Kadosh, otherwise
known as the "Holy Knight," "Knight of the Temple" and
"Degree of Revenge."

According to Pike, the Knights Templar were from
the very beginning "devoted to... opposition to the tiara
of Rome and the crown of its Chiefs...." Their object,
Pike said, was to acquire influence and wealth, then to
"intrigue and at need fight to establish the Johnnite or
Gnostic and Kabbalistic dogma."

According to author Paul Fisher, "The former Grand
Commander of the Scottish Rite [Pike] also asserted that
the secret movers of the French Revolution had sworn
upon the tomb of De Molay to overthrow Throne and
Altar. Then, when King Louis XVI of France was executed
(1793), "half the work was done; thenceforward, the
Army of the Temple was to direct all its efforts against
the Pope,"

The United States' Founding Fathers well knew the
seditious nature of the Scottish Rite, which President
George Washington, in a letter to Minister G.W. Snyder,
denounced for its "diabqlical tenets" and for having un-
leashed "the pernicious principles" of the Jacobin mob
during the French Revolution.

3) Prayer. These "wall of separation" cases began in
the early 1960s, and they continue today. In the interim,
the Supreme Court, with the full approval of the ADL,
has been involved in banning non-denominational prayer
to a monotheistic God, voluntary prayer, and silent
prayer in schools, courtrooms, and at other federal, state,
and local government functions. In a related case in
which the ADL filed an amicus brief in 1961, Torcaso v.

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Watkins, the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional
for people seeking public office to be required to take
an oath that they believe in the existence of God.

hi 1963, with School District of Abington Township
v. Schempp, the Supreme Court agreed with the ADL's
amicus argument that Bible reading at the start of a
school day is unconstitutional. In the recent case of Ken-
neth Roberts v. Kathleen Madigan, as we shall see, the
Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Tenth U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals, that banned the Bible from
being in the schoolroom unless a teacher hid it in his
desk. In its pamphlet Friend of the Court, the ADL argues
that it is seeking to keep the government completely out
of religion and vice versa, lest the Jewish minority be
overwhelmed by a Christian majority:

"The horrible consequences of an officially sponsored
religion can be seen in the Crusades and, in one of the
darkest periods in Jewish history, the Spanish Inquisition.
... ADL works to ensure a strict separation of church and
state so as to protect minority religions... Judaism is a
central concern for the League."

But the ADL's hostility, rather than being directed
against Christianity, is actually directed against the en-
tirety of the Judeb-Christian tradition, demonstrated
when the ADL filed amicus briefs to ban display of the
Ten Commandments in the classroom in cases parallel-
ing the school prayer issue.

Perhaps the most ironic case, given the ADL's claims
to represent Jewish interests, was its stand in the 1980
Ten Commandments case, Stone v. Graham, where the
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the posting of the Ten Commandments in each school
classroom. The ADL ended up fighting a small-print state-
ment after the last Commandment which read:

"The secular application of the Ten Commandments
is clearly seen in its adoption as the fundamental legal
code of Western civilization and the common law of the
United States." In November 1980, the ADL agreed with
the Supreme Court's decision that this was unconstitu-
tional.

4) Christmas carols, hymns, spirituals. Nearly all
of these song forms, which are a most efficient prophylac-
tic to protect children from the horrors of the rock-drug-
sex counterculture, and are a bridge to classical music,
have been all but banned with the agreement of the ADL
from public schools.

One recent case, Florey v. Sioux Falls School Dis-
trict 49-5, grew out of a 1978 school board policy which
allowed the singing of Christmas carols, the performance
of religious plays, and the display of religious symbols in
Sioux Falls public schools. Although the ADL filed ami-
cus briefs at the level of the Eighth US. Circuit Court of
Appeals and with the Supreme Court; the latter refused
to hear the case, thereby affirming the decision of the
Appeals Court that such actions were constitutional,
much to the dismay of the ADL

5) Equal Access Act (EAA). Another decision that
drew cries of alarm from both the ADL and the New Age
Southern Jurisdiction that the "wall was being lowered"
involved the EAA. In a June 4, 1990 press release, the
ADL said: "The Supreme Court decision today upholding
the Equal Access Amendment erodes the wall separating
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side Community Schools v. Mergens, involved the efforts
of a student, Bridget C. Mergens, to have equal access to
school facilities for a Christian Bible study club.

According to the ADL release, "The Court held that
student sponsored religious clubs in public high schools
do not violate the establishment clause of the First
Amendment." In its amicus brief, the ADL argued that
the EAA was unconstitutional, since it involves the public
schools promoting religious activities impermissible
from the standpoint of the cult dogma underlying the
"wall of separation" opinion of Justice Hugo Black.

In its 1991 ADL in the Courts pamphlet, the ADL
describes its amicus brief as having argued the following:

"The brief contended that both the legislative history of
the EAA and the language of the statute itself reveal its
impermissible religious purpose. The EAA arose follow-
ing several unsuccessful legislative and constitutional
initiatives to promote religion in public schools. When
these efforts failed, Congress adopted the free speech
analysis from Widmar v. Vincent 454 U.S. 263 (1983),
characterizing student religious activity as a protected
form of free expression."

What particularly disturbed the ADL was that by
granting Christian clubs equal access to school facilities,
where there was an open forum for the debate of often
competing ideas, the Supreme Court in upholding the
EAA had somehow given undue emphasis to the free
speech clause of the First Amendment over the establish-
ment clause interpretation of Justice Black.

5) Religious symbols. As a result of adjudication
since the Everson decision, it has become unconstitu-
tional for schools and governments to celebrate Christ-

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mas or other Christian holidays with the display of such
religious symbols as crosses, Nativity scenes, or depic-
tions of Jesus. Instead, what must be substituted are
Santa Claus, reindeer, and Christmas trees, which are of a
secular nature and tend to substitute the material aspect
of gifts, rather than the religious significance of the found-
ing of Christianity, with the birth of Christ.

The ADL has participated in a number of such cases.
Among the recent ones described in its 1991 ADL in the
Courts pamphlet is Doe v. Small 934 F. 2d 743 (7th
Circuit) 1991: "At issue in this case was the constitution-
ality of a public park display of numerous large paintings
depicting scenes from the life of Jesus Christ."

The ADL wrote an amicus brief in this case from
Ottawa, Illinois, saying that the local government's assis-
tance to the Jaycees in preparing the annual display,
including the use of public land, violated the "wall of
separation." Writes the ADL: "The brief contended that
the city is not merely acknowledging or celebrating
Christmas, bat that it is instead supporting Christianity."

Yet, in the case of American Jewish Congress v.
City of Beverly Hills, Case No. CV. 90-6521, when the
American Jewish Congress filed suit against the Lubo-
vitchers for erecting a menorah to celebrate Hanukkah
on public property, the ADL worked out a compromise
whereby the menorah could be displayed along with a
large Christmas tree on land that did not face public
buildings.

5) Banning the Bible On June 29, 1992, the Su-
preme Court let stand a ruling in the case of Kenneth
Roberts v. Kathleen Madigan and Adams County School
District No. 50, that the Constitution prohibits an ele-
mentary public school teacher from silently reading the

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Bible to himself while his students read secular books.
The Court declined to review a decision of the Tenth
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that Kenneth Roberts, a
fifth-grade public school teacher teaching in a suburb of
Denver, violated the Constitution by reading the Bible
to himself during the classroom's "silent reading period."

The Tenth Circuit had ruled that even having the
Bible on top of the teacher's desk in view of the students
violates the First Amendment, and Roberts had been
forced to hide the Bible in his desk after he was admon-
ished by the principal, Kathleen Madigan. The Appeals
Court also ruled it unconstitutional for Roberts to in-
clude two Christian books, The Bible in Pictures and
The Story of Jesus, in his 240-volume classroom library
among such other books as Tom Sawyer, The Wizard of
Oz, and Charlotte's Web. Also in the classroom library
were two books that contained discussions of Indian
religions and a book on Greek mythology.

The ADL filed an amicus brief with the Tenth U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals. To quote ADL in the Courts:

"ADL's brief argued that the district court properly de-
nied the injunctive relief when it determined that Rob-
erts was using his role as a teacher to advance religion
in violation of the Lemon establishment clause test. ADL
argued that the Supreme Court has recognized repeat-
edly that to impressionable schoolchildren, religious ac-
tivities in the public schools convey the message of gov-
ernment sponsorship of religion. This is particularly true
when a teacher reads from the Bible in front of students."

However, as even the ADL had to acknowledge,
"One of the three judges in the Court of Appeals panel
dissented, charging that the school was converting the

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establishment clause into governmental disapproval, dis-
paragement, and hostility toward the Christian religion."

Polymorphous Patrons

The ADL's hostility to the basic Judeo-Christian princi-
ples upon which the United States was founded is blatant.
Its support for overtly satanic or New Age "alternatives"
to Judeo-Christian moral values, while less public, is also
clear upon closer observation.

The League's post-Matamoros efforts to sandbag
Texas legislation against satanic-related crimes is one
case in point. Another case in point is the ADL's involve-
ment in one of the most outrageous instances of child
sexual abuse in recent memory.

The scandal began in Omaha, Nebraska but eventu-
ally spread to Washington, D.C., implicating officials of
the Reagan-Bush White House in after-hours cavorting
with male prostitutes. It has been the subject of thou-
sands of pages of news coverage, several criminal trials,
and one book, The Franklin Cover-up: Child Abuse, Sa-
tanism and Murder in Nebraska, by retired Nebraska
state senator and decorated Vietnam war hero John
DeCamp.

In Late 1988, federal regulators moved in and shut
the doors of the Franklin Community Federal Credit
Union in Omaha. The institution had been looted into
bankruptcy by its founder and manager, Larry King. King,
a prominent black Republican Party activist, had been
sponsored by some of the most powerful people in town,
including the publisher of the only statewide daily news-
paper in Nebraska, Harold Andersen, and one of the
world's wealthiest men, investment broker Warren
Buffett.

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Following the blowout of Franklin Credit, evidence
began to surface that King, along with many of his presti-
gious local backers, was part of a VIP homosexual cult
which regularly tortured and sexually abused area youth
in pedophilic orgies. Further investigations linked King
to Washington lobbyist and homosexual Craig Spence.
When Washington bunco cops busted a male prostitu-
tion ring in the summer of 1989, Spence's name showed
up all over the company's records as one of its biggest
spending clients. Spence had high-level White House and
GOP connections, and on several occasions had toured
the President's home after dark in the company of corpo-
rate clients and homosexual prostitutes. According to
several accounts, King and Spence were business part-
ners in several call-boy services.

Back in Omaha, a mad dash to cover up the pedo-
phile activities was launched by local FBI officials and
the Omaha chief of police, Robert Wadman, himself a
member of the homosexual cult, according to numerous
witness accounts. Ultimately, King was carted off to fed-
eral prison on bank fraud charges, and several efforts to
get to the bottom of the pedophile ring were short-
circuited.

More questions remain unanswered, but one thing
is certain: Alan Baer, a local Omaha multi-millionaire
and financial backer of the ADL, was personally caught
redhanded in pedophile activities. In 1990, Baer was
charged with pandering by local police. He pleaded
guilty to a lesser charge rather than face a jury trial with
all the attendant media coverage. Baer's name came up
repeatedly as a major player in the testimony of victim-
witnesses to the child abuse.

The Alan and Marcia Baer Foundation was also listed

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as a source of money to several charities, including the
Girls Club of Omaha, that were apparently victimized by
the child abuse ring. The Foundation also donates to the
Gay Men's Health Crisis, Inc. in San Francisco, and the
People With AIDS Coalition.

In December 1991, Alan Baer put up the money for
a full-page advertisement placed by the ADL in several
major newspapers. The ad, headlined "Not All Nazis Are
Living in South America," was a fundraising pitch for the
ADL.

Bad judgment on the part of the ADL? Or merely
one more instance of the ADL's showing its true colors?
You be the judge.

EIRNS

Zionist lobby members
(clockwise from top left) Rep.
Sidney Yates (D-Ill), Sen.
Howard Metzenbaum (D-
Ohio), and Sen. Richard
Shelby (D-Ala.) are just some
of the ADL-AIPAC agents in
Congress.

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In 1974, Richard Nixon went down for the
count as the result of the botched Watergate break-in at
the Democratic National Committee's headquarters in
Washington, D.C. during the 1972 presidential cam-
paign. As reporters, congressional committees and spe-
cial prosecutors pored over the details of the Watergate
scandal, evidence of a pattern of bribery and coverups
emerged that ended up contributing to Nixon's resigna-
tion even more than the break-in itself.

Since the fall of Nixon, the American political lexi-
con has been blessed with such Watergate offspring as
"Debategate," "Cartergate," "Irangate," "Bushgate," and
"Iraqgate." Political corruption scandals have become as
American as apple pie.

Yet despite this growing addiction to political

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sleaze, the vast majority of Americans are totally oblivi-
ous to the fact that on any given day, the ADL and its
fellow hooligans in what is euphemistically dubbed the
"Zionist lobby" (the "Dope lobby" is a far moe appro-
priate description) commit crimes against the American
electorate that make Watergate seem tame by compari-
son. Blackmail, extortion and bribery are such routine
tactics of the Zionist lobby that its primary target victims,
the United States Senate and House of Representatives,
have been turned into political mush, incapable of gov-
erning under the best of circumstances, and completely
paralyzed in the face of the current political and eco-
nomic crises.

While the media had led the charge against congres-
sional incumbents, appealing to a Justified "throw the
bums out" sentiment building among the majority of
voters, the sad reality is that unless the power of the
Zionist lobby is cut down to size, any newly elected
Congress will be like lambs walking to the slaughter, and
nothing will change.

Officially, both the ADL and its leading collaborator
in this corrupting of the Congress, the American-Israel
Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), are forbidden from
engaging in political campaigning due to their tax-ex-
empt status. Both groups have managed to systematically
break the electoral and tax laws with impunity — largely
due to the fact that they have placed fellow travelers in
key posts in the Executive Branch regulatory agencies
that are supposed to monitor the activities of groups
benefiting from the tax exemptions: the Federal Election
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Spreading Narco-Dollars

A glimpse at how the Zionist lobby has used the power
of the narco-dollar to corrupt and control the Congress
is contained in a lawsuit filed in federal court in Washing-
ton, D.C on Aug. 10, 1992. The suit, filed by a group of
retired U.S. diplomats against the FEC, charges that the
agency failed to impose sanctions against AIPAC for func-
tioning as an unregistered political action committee.
Even though the General Counsel at the FEC agreed that
AIPAC had violated the law, the Commissioners decided
in July 1992 not to take any action against the group.

According to the court papers, AIPAC secretly con-
trols at least 27 different political action committees
(PACs) (other investigators place the figure at 59), and
uses them to funnel enormous amounts of money to
candidates for Congress who support AIPACs political
agenda. Under the FEC statutes, strict limits are imposed
on how much money can be given to an individual candi-
date by a single PAC The purpose of the regulation is to
curb the power of special interest groups in the financing
of candidates. By running dozens of PACs, AIPAC, ac-
cording to the suit, illegally circumvents the law.

The case of the Joint Action Committee for Political
Affiairs OACPAC), one of the 27 PACs named in the suit,
underscores the tight relationship between AIPAC, the
ADL and the political committees. JACPAC lists among its
directors the wives of Thomas Dine and Stuart Eizenstat
Since 1980, Dine has been the executive director of
AIPAC. Eizenstat, formerly domestic policy adviser to
President Jimmy Carter, is the head of the National Jew-
ish Democratic Council (NJDC), an ADL-dominated or-
ganization dedicated to winning control over the Demo-

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cratic Party and placing as many of its members as
possible on the staffs of congressmen, governors and
mayors.

And where does all of the money come from to buy
up the hundreds of congressional seats currently owned
by ADL-AIPAC?

A brief look at the Roundtable PAC, one of the 27
outfits cited in the lawsuit as AIPAC-owned, answers that
question. Roundtable PAC was founded in 1981 by a
group of leading ADL and AIPAC officials and contribu-
tors, led by Malcolm Hohlein, the head of the Jewish
Community Relations Council of New York. From day
one, it was housed in the Manhattan offices of a tax
shelter firm called Integrated Resources. Integrated was
a thinly veiled money conduit for Michael Milken and
his crew of junk bond peddlers and dope money washers
at Drexel Burnham. In fact, Drexel CEO Stephen Wein-
roth, the liaison between Milken and Ivan Boesky in their
insider trading scams, was a director of Integrated. All
of Milken's prime "investors" socked their money into
Integrated as a tax dodge. All of them also poured contri-
butions into the Roundtable PAC.

Among the biggest donors to Roundtable: Ivan
Boesky, Robert Davidow (Milken's personal aide at the
Beverly Hills office of Drexel), and the sons and daugh-
ters of Meshulam Riklis, Laurence Tisch, Saul Steinberg
and Paul Milstein (of Carl Lindner's United Brands).

When the Roundtable PAC holds its meetings,
guests of honor include, respectively, New, York and
Minnesota Attorneys General Robert Abrams and "Skip"
Humphrey, and N.Y. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan. All
are regular recipients of AIPAC PAC dollars: In return for
such generosity, Senator Moynihan in 1986 shepherded

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a tax code revision through the U:S. Congress that gave
Integrated Resources an added $43 million in tax breaks.
With friends like Moynihan in key posts in the U.S. Senate,
Integrated could afford to be generous — at least for a
while.

The relationship between Milken and Integrated
was so tight that within three months of Milken's indict-
ment in March 1989 for insider trading, Integrated de-
faulted on $1 billion in short-term loans. It seems that
without the running pipeline of hot money from Milken's
bottomless Caribbean cash pool, Integrated was lost
The AIPAC-ADL-run political action committees, in
short, represent the combined financial clout of the Lan-
sky dope syndicate! Any similarity between ADL-AIPAC
and the genuine national interests of the state of Israel
or the Jewish people is purely coincidental.

All told, 211 candidates for the US. House and Sen-
ate from 48 states received money from the ADL-AIPAC
PACs between Jan. 1, 1991 and March 31, 1992. Of the
211 recipients, 187 were incumbents. The total amount
given in that 15 -month period was well over $2 million,
making ADL-AIPAC the second largest source of institu-
tional money to candidates for federal office, second only
to the combined donations of all of the labor union PACs.
By October 1992, that figure had soared past the $3
million mark.

The ADL-AIPAC PACs don't funnel the majority of
their money into Jewish candidates, or even into candi-
dates running for office in states where there are large
Jewish populations. More typical of the kinds of office-
holders and candidates who receive. AIPAC payoffs is
Richard G. Shelby, a first-term Democratic U.S. senator
from Alabama who has recently gained notoriety for

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pushing a death penally bill for the District of Columbia-
Shelby received $67,800 from the AIPAC PACs in the 15
months beginning in January 1991, with a career total of
$133,825.

Another record-setting recipient of AIPAC largess
is Sen. Tom Harkin, the Iowa Democrat who ran an
unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomi-
nation in 1992. Harkin came into the Senate in 1984 by
defeating incumbent Roger Jepsen, who in 1981 had cast
a decisive vote against AIPAC in a fight over the sale of
AW ACS surveillance aircraft to Saudi Arabia. In his first
Senate bid, Harkin received over $100,000 from the
AIPAC combine. His career total in AIPAC money is a
staggering $366,130!

A total of 29 current incumbent senators and con-
gressmen have received over $100,000 in illegal contri-
butions from the ADL- AIPAC PACs. A dozen have re-
ceived $50,000 or more just for their 1992 re-election
campaigns.

That "dirty dozen" are: Richard Shelby (D-AL), Mel
Levine (D-CA), Timothy Wirth (D-CO), Daniel Inouye
(D-HA), Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Christopher Bond (R-
MO), Kent Conrad (D-ND), Robert Packwood (R-OR),
Arlen Specter (R-PA), Harris Wofford (D-PA), Thomas
Daschle (D-SD), and Robert Kasten (R-WI).

Plumbers Unit

Narco-dollars are the key to the ADL's hold over the U.S.
Congress, but the League and its AIPAC associates have
other trump cards as well. Both groups operate secret,
highly illegal spy units that gather blackmail material and
carry out dirty tricks against political opponents.
When Richard Nixon got caught running such a

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"plumbers unit" at the offices of the Committee to Re-
Elect the President (CREEP) in 1972, the American peo-
ple demanded his scalp. It remains to be seen what the
reaction will be now that AIPAC has had its first damaging
defection — from its own "plumbers unit."

Gregory Slabodkin worked for a number of years in
AIPAC's Policy Analysis unit. Slabodkin eventually got
turned off by some of the dirty deeds he was ordered to
carry out by the unit's chief, Michael Lewis, and he quit
his job and went public with his story. Not surprisingly,
Michael Lewis is the son of Dr. Bernard Lewis, the Ox-
ford-trained Arabist who was the architect of the Career
administration's "Arc of Crisis" policy which abetted Aya-
tollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolution in Iran and the
spread of fundamentalism throughout the region.

Policy Analysis, the super-euphemistic name given
to AIPAC's "plumbers," maintains dossiers on thousands
of American activists — many of them Jewish! University
professors who criticize AIPAC or ADL's activities are
placed on a blacklist. Their lectures are monitored by
spies, who occasionally stage noisy disruptions. Their
homes and cars are vandalized. University alumni linked
to ADL and AIPAC threaten to pull financial backing
from the schools unless the targeted faculty members are
immediately fired or blocked from tenure.

Members of Congress are cast as either friends or
targets of the ADL- AIPAC syndicate. If they are on the
friendlies list, they may be the recipients of weekly com-
puterized blackmail dossiers on some of their colleagues
and other policy shapers, which are called "Activities."
The "Activities" dossiers are sent out in plain white enve-
lopes bearing no organizational emblems. Deniability is
a priority, and the whole filthy blackmail and extortion

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program was 100 percent deniable — until Slabodkin's
defection — complete with reams of AIPAC documents.

AIPAC's unit maintains a singularly close link to the
ADL's parallel Fact Finding department, which engages
in the exact same kind of activity. In fact, shortly after
Thomas Dine took over as executive director of AIPAC,
he hired Amy Goott as the first full-time staffer of the
Policy Analysis unit. Goott had worked for years at the
ADL; her shift of address was apparently blessed by her
bosses at the League, and she continued for a period of
time to work for both agencies, thereby assuring near-
total integration at the covert operations level.

One feature of the job that ultimately got under
Gregory Slabodkin's skin was the fact that many of his
targets were themselves prominent Jewish activists, usu-
ally affiliated with left-wing causes in both the United
States and Israel. Many were outspoken critics of the
Israeli Likud government's brutality toward the Palestin-
ians living in the occupied territories. Many simply fa-
vored a peaceful and equitable solution to the Arab-
Israeli conflict. Many of these Jewish activists were
treated to the same violence and vicious smearing by
ADL-AIPAC that was meted out to Palestine Liberation
Organization (PLO) officials !

This "McCarthyite" targeting of prominent Jews
who simply bucked the ADL or AIPAC on some policy
issue or financial deal underscores the fact that the
League and AIPAC are anything but a Jewish "defense
organization."

What You Can Do

It should be clear by now that the ADL is
one of the most pernicious agencies working to destroy
the United States, through the subversion of law and
moral values, through the peddling of illegal drugs,
through the blackmailing and extortion against Con-
gress, through the looting and trashing of our industrial
and manufacturing base, and through its collusion with
hostile foreign agencies. Volumes could be written cata-
loguing the century of treachery by the ADL and its
"mother lodge," the Order of B'nai B'rith.

But now is not the time to dwell on details. Now is
the time to do something. The ADL continues to thrive
as long as Americans remain passive in the face of this
subversion. The ADL is not "out there." It is alive and
well right in your own backyard.

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Although it maintains its national headquarters at
823 United Nations Plaza in New York City (sharing
space with the Trilateral Commission), the ADL now has
offices in 31 cities across the United States. The ADL has
divided the entire country into regions, so that even
those cities and states where the ADL does not maintain
full-time offices are targeted by their subversive activity.

What kinds of things does the ADL do that immedi-
ately affect your life and the lives of your children and
neighbors?

They have infiltrated your local police. It stands to
reason that an organization as deeply tied to the interna-
tional dope trade as the ADL would place special priority
on getting inside the local police to undermine the po-
lice's efforts.

This they have done with a vengeance.

Since the early 1980s, the ADL has sponsored a half-
dozen junkets to Israel for local police chiefs, sheriffs
and public safety directors. By now, every ranking big
city and big county law enforcement executive — with
rare exceptions — has enjoyed the ADL's all expenses
paid tours of Israel. The top cops are wined and dined,
and given the hard sell by the Israeli Mossad, Israeli
Defense Force and National Police. The Israeli govern-
ment's brutal treatment of the Palestinian residents of
the occupied territories is held up as the model of how
to deal with protesters and demonstrators.

Beginning in 1982, the ADL launched an ambitious
drive to have every state in the Union pass a "hate crime"
law modeled on the League's own draft legislation. The
bills all add longer prison sentences and steeper fines in
cases where a crime, victim was targeted because of his
or her race, religion or nationality. Although prejudice

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is an evil that must be overcome, the ADL bills, which
are now on the books in all but four states, create a
category of Orwellian "thought crimes" in flagrant viola-
tion of the United States Constitution.

Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court and the state su-
preme courts in Wisconsin and Ohio have struck down
versions of the ADL "hate crime" bill as violations of the
First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments.

Despite these recent reversals, the ADL has managed
to parlay the hate crime push into even deeper infiltra-
tion and subversion of law enforcement. Through its
assets in the U.S. Congress, the ADL pushed through a
string of federal laws requiring the U.S. attorney general
to prepare an annual report on incidents of hate crime.
Having cornered the market in monitoring so-called hate
crimes, the ADL was able to insinuate its regional officers
into police training seminars, practically writing the cur-
ricula and drafting all the textbooks and training aides.

Not only has the ADL made millions of dollars ped-
dling this Orwellian "hate crime" racket. It has also used
the infiltration of law enforcement to spread its own
brand of hatred: Blacks are inherendy anti-Semitic; Arabs,
including Arab-Americans, are sub-human; anyone op-
posed to the Zionist lobby is automatically suspect as a
left radical or right radical anti-Semitic terrorist.

As citizens and taxpayers, you have the right to
know whether your local police have been subjected to
brainwashing by the ADL Ask your police chief or sher-
iff whether he has been on one of the ADL junkets, or
whether his department has received ADL "training." If
the answer is "yes," demand to see the training manuals.
Find out whether the ADL is "helping" your local police
or sheriffs in maintaining their informants — by either

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financing those programs or even running them. As far-
fetched as this may seem, especially given what you now
know about the ADL's ties to organized crime, there are
local police departments around the country that have
brought the ADL into their most sensitive intelligence
gathering, usually out of naivete and desperation over
shrinking budgets.

Most states today have freedom of information laws
that require police agencies to publicly release docu-
ments— including documents about ties to private agen-
cies like the ADL

Subverting Your Schools

They are subverting your children's education. Comple-
menting their highly successful infiltration and subver-
sion of your local police and sheriffs departments, the
gangsters and social engineers over at the ADL have
conducted an equally pernicious assault into your school
system, using some of the most sophisticated New Age
techniques.

Under the rubric of their "A World of Difference"
program, ADL officials have succeeded in "training" tens
of thousands of public school teachers and administra-
tors to "combat prejudice." In fact, teachers all over the
country who have been exposed to the ADL "prejudice"
curriculum have complained bitterly that the film strips,
training volumes and other slick multi-media tools ped-
dled by the League actually teach prejudice — against
African- Americans, Arabs, Catholics and others.

Despite these occasionally surfaced protests, the
ADL has managed to penetrate deep into the school
system, in part due to the assistance of the National
Education Association (NEA), one of the nation's largest

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teachers unions and a longtime peddler of New Age
values and curricula.

The "A World of Difference" program, which got its
start in 1986, is now operating in 26 of the 31 regional
ADL offices. Concretely, this means that chances are very
good that your children and their teachers have been
exposed to this ADL subversive propaganda. Through its
ties to the Hollywood entertainment industry, dating
back to the gangster era of Prohibition, the ADL fre-
quently attracts well-known Hollywood celebrities to
participate in their classroom videos, thus adding to the
aura of respectability.

What the ADL avoids mentioning is the fact that the
money to launch "A World of Difference" came from
Hollywood's own junk bond king and inside trader, Mi-
chael Milken. Milken personalty ripped off billions of
dollars from the U.S. economy during the 1980s, and in
appreciation for the ADL's role in covering up his crimes,
he passed millions of dollars into their hands. One of
those million-dollar tax writeoffs went to launching "A
World of Difference."

Just as you have a right to know whether your
local police and sheriffs have been subjected to ADL
"training," you are entitled to know whether the public
schools financed by your tax dollars are ruining your
children with ADL propaganda The next time you at-
tend a PTA meeting or speak with your children's teach-
ers or the school principal, ask about the "A World of
Difference" program. Is it being used in your children's
school?

Ask your local board of education whether they
have purchased audio-visual teaching material from the
ADL or whether they have budgeted to send teachers

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through one of the ADL's frequent "A World of Differ-
ence" seminars. Tens of thousands of teachers from coast
to coast have been subjected to this New Age program-
ming over the last six years. Call up the ADL or write to
them at 823 United Nations Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10017
to get a copy of their catalogue, "Human Relations Materi-
als for the School." Read it for yourself and get an idea
of the kinds of prejudices and fears being peddled on
your children.

Demand that these programs be shut down, now!

The easiest thing for you, the citizen, to do, is to act
to prevent the ADL from continuing to use a tax-exempt,
"public interest" cover for its political activities, and
worse. The ADL is supposed to be prohibited by its
501 c(3) status from political action, but it violates the
rules every day: Call your congressman or the Internal
Revenue Service to file a complaint. The IRS can be
reached at 1-800-829-1040.

And, last but not least, make sure that your neigh-
bors and friends are made aware of the dangers repre-
sented by the ADL presence in your community. Pass
this book around, talk it up among your friends and
colleagues. The prospects of retaking the country are
dim until the influence of the Anti-Defamation League is
erased!

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Chapter Notes

Chapter 1 150 Years of Perfidy

Much of the material for this chapter comes from B'nai
B'rith sources, including Edward E. Grusd's semiofficial history
of the Order of B'nai B'rith: 'The Story of a Covenant (New
York: Appieton-Century, 1966); and Esther L. Panitz's biogra-
phy Simon Wolf — Private Conscience and Public Image (Mad-
ison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1987). For the
history of the U.S. Secret Service during the Civil War period,
see LaFayette C. Baker's autobiography and his one- volume
history of the Secret Service.

There are also a number of recently published biographies
of Judah P. Benjamin and August Belmont from which the
information about these two seminal B'nai B'rith collaborators
was derived. Particularly useful was David Black's The King of
Fifth Avenue — The Fortunes of August Belmont (New York:
The Dial Press, 1981). See also The New Federalist newspaper,
September-November 1992, for a series of articles by Anton

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Chaitkin which detail the role of General Albert Pike and the
Scottish Rite Southern Jurisdiction of Freemasonry in the Con-
federate secessionist insurrection and in the later founding of
the Ku Klux Klan.

Henry C. Carey's treatment of the British Opium Wars
against China and India is found in his 1853 work The Slave
Trade, Domestic and Foreign. The complete series of American
System of Political Economy works is published in reprint
by the Augustus Kelly Publishing House of Philadelphia. The
authors also drew heavily on a series of articles by Paul
Goldstein and Mark Burdman which appeared in the December
1978 issue of The Campaigner magazine.

The concluding section of this chapter was based on a
series of articles published in the Washington Post and the
Washington Times in the summer of 1992, as well as the ADL's
1992 report The Anti-Semitism of Black Demagogues and
Extremists.

Chapter 2 A Public Relations Front for Meyer
Lansky

For a basic, biographical profile of Morris Dalitz, including
his lifelong collaboration with Meyer Lansky, his role in Holly-
wood and Las Vegas, etc. see Hank Messick's Silent Syndicate.
For the material regarding the Bronfman family's involvement
in Prohibition-era bootlegging, see The Bronfman Dynasty:
The Rothschilds of the New World by Peter C. Newman (To-
ronto: McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 1978). See also Dope, Inc.,
third edition, (Washington, D.C.: Executive Intelligence Re-
view, 1992), which provides an important overview of the
world narcotics trade, including several chapters dealing with
the role of the Bronfman family.

There are several biographies of Meyer Lansky from which
the authors drew information. By for the most detailed and
useful of these is the 1971 book by Hank Messick, Lansky.
Messick had access to police files and other government re-
cords which have been either ignored of not made available
to other authors. One recent Lansky biography, Little Man-
Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life, by Robert Lacey (Boston:

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Little, Brown & Co,, 1991) does contain some useful informa-
tion about the Lansky organization.

For a critical source book on the early history of Jewish
organized crime in America and around the world, see Albert
Freed's The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America.

The involvement of Sterling National Bank in the Banca
Privata theft is detailed in the files of the United States District
Court for the Southern District of New York, case citation
Adolfo Dolmetta, Giovanni Rubboli and Vittorio Coda
against Uintah National Corporation, David M. Kennedy,
Sterling Bancorp a/k/a Standard Prudential Corporation, Ster-
ling National Bank & Trust Company et al.

Maxwell Raab's links to Meyer Lansky are reported in
Messick's Lansky. The details of the Arnold Burns offshore
illegal tax shelter scam are contained in a series of news stories
in the Washington Times by reporter George Archibald, pub-
lished during the summer of 1988. The links between Dore
Senary and Abner Zwillman are from a series of FBI documents
obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit
regarding FBI files on the Anti-Defamation League. All told, the
FBI has released several thousand pages of material regarding
the ADL covering the period from World War II through the
early 1980s. Additional files are still being reviewed for public
disclosure.

Chapter 3 The ADL and the Opium War
Against America

For details of the Kenneth Bialkin and Willkie, Farr and
Gallagher links to Robert Vesco, see United States District
Court for the Southern District of New York case citation Fund
of Funds Limited, FOF, Proprietary Funds Limited, IOS Growth
fund Limited against Robert L. Vesco, Norman P. LeBlanc,
Milton Meissner, Allen F. Conwill, Bank of New York and
Willkie Farr & Gallagher, 14 CIV 1980 (CES)

Additional information on Meyer Lansky's involvement
with Investors Overseas Service (IOS) is found in Hank Mes-
sick's Lansky. The role of Kid Cann and the Minneapolis branch
of the National Crime Syndicate in the Meyer Lansky organiza-

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tion is spelled out in a series of articles appearing in The New
Federalist newspaper in 1991 and 1992. Other details about
the Minneapolis ADL network are found in Not the Work of
One Day, a six-volume oral history of the ADL published by
the League and available at the Library of Congress in Washing-
ton, D.C."

For information on Meshulam Riklis' involvement with the
Robert Vesco transactions and the Michael Milken junk bond
operations, see Connie Bracks Predators' Ball: The Inside Story
of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988). A very slanted, albeit
detailed version of Edmund Safra's dealings with Kenneth Bial-
kin and American Express is found in Brian Burroughs' Ven-
detta— American Express and the Smearing of Edmund Safra
(New York. Harper Collins, 1992). Burroughs admits that his
book is so biased in favor of Safra that he was accused of
taking all million payoff from Safra, an allegation he does not
explicitly deny. Scores of articles from the Wall Street Journal
and the New York Times also provided critical background
information on the Safra-Bialkin-ADL relationship. For details
on the role of Arthur Liman, Safra and Bialkin in the Iran-Contra
scandal, see the records of the House-Senate Select Panel on
Iran-Contra, as well as the hundreds of in-depth news accounts
published in all of the major American daily newspapers during
1986-87.

Chapter 4 The ADL and the Junk Bond Bandits
Rip Off America

A number of recent books on the junk bond swindles that
rocked Wall Street and the investment community during the
late 1980s were used in the writing of this chapter. Among the
most useful of those books was Connie Bruck's Predators' Ball.
Also invaluable was James Stewart's Den of Thieves (New York:
Simon & Schuster, 1991). Stewart, an editor of the Wall Street
Journal, drew on hundreds of articles published in that newspa-
per over a several-year period in writing his study. Jesse Korn-
bluth's Highly Confident — The Crime and Punishment of Mi-

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chael Milken (New York: William Morrow and Co., 1992 ) also
provided valuable information.

Information pertaining to the various tax-exempt founda-
tions and charitable trusts cited in this chapter came from The
Foundation Center, a research library on tax-exempt organiza-
tions maintained in New York City and Washington, D.C. by
the Russell Sage Foundation.

Chapter 5 Colluding With Terrorists

The text of Judge William Webster's speech was obtained
from the Washington, D.C. National Press Club files. Robert I.
Friedman's book Kahane provided details on the Jewish De-
fense League's sponsorship by the head of the Brooklyn ADL,
the Alex Odeh assassination and some information on Morde-
chai Levy. A spring 1986 Executive Intelligence Review special
report, "Moscow's Secret Weapon — Ariel Sharon and the Israeli
Mafia," provided additional background information on Morde-
chai Levy. Numerous stories appearing in the Philadelphia
Daily News and the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1979 were also
consulted. The Kathy Ainsworth story drew upon a 1970 Los
Angeles Times story by its Washington, D.C. bureau chief Jack
Nelson.

Chapter 6 In Bed With Communist Dictators
and Spies

For a partial account of the Jonathan Jay Pollard affair and
the involvement of Kenneth Bialkin, see Wolf Blitzer's semi-
authorized biography of Pollard, Territory of Lies (New York:
Harper & Row, 1991). Additional material on the Pollard affair
was gathered from the Washington Post, the Wall Street Jour-
nal and the Jerusalem Post

Edgar Bronfman's involvement with the East German gov-
ernmnent was detailed in a report issued in 1991 by the Wehr-
kunde, Western Germany's military studies center in Munich.
A prominent law professor and military historian was commis-
sioned to review the captured archives of the East German
Foreign Ministry, and the results of his study relating to Edgar

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Bronfman and the World Jewish Congress were published in
summary news accounts in Bild Zeitung Frankfurter Allge-
meine Zeitung and Semit.

The Palme assassination material was drawn from Swedish
daily newspaper accounts of the murder and the several-year-
long investigation.

Information on the U.S. Justice Department's Office of
Special Investigations (OSI) was obtained from public files
of the Dept. of Justice and from material released under the
Freedom of Information Act to relatives of John Demjanjuk.
Linda Hunt's Secret Agenda (New York: St. Martins Press, 1991)
provided some details on the Dr. Arthur Rudolph case.

Chapter 7 Railroad!

AH of the information used in this chapter is found in two
published source books on the LaRouche trials, both published
by the Commission to Investigate Human Rights Violations.
Railroad! U.S.A. vs. Lyndon LaRouche, et al. (Washington,
D.C., 1989) includes extensive documentation from the court
records of the Boston and Alexandria trials, as well as a detailed
chronology of the frameup. A second 1992 pamphlet contains
the full text of LaRouche's 2255 motion for a retrial, which
presents new evidence of the government and ADL frameup
effort.

Chapter 8 The ADL Peddles the New Age

The ADL's involvement in the effort to defeat Texas legisla-
tive initiatives against satanic crime was reported in local news-
paper stories in Dallas and Houston, Texas during the summer
of 1989.

The biographical information about Justice Hugo Black
may be found in Paul A. Fisher's Behind the Lodge Door.
Church, State and Freemasonry in America (Washington, D.C:
Sheld Publishers).

For details on the ADL's legal interventions, see Jill Donnie
Snyder and Eric K. Goodman's Friend of the Court, 1947-1982:
To Secure Justice and Fair Treatment for All (New York: The

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Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith). Also see ADL Law
Report: ADL in the Courts — Litigation Docket 1991 (New
York: Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, 1992). Additional
material was obtained from the case file of Kenneth Roberts
against Kathleen Madigan and Adams County School District
No. 50, Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, in the Supreme Court
of the United States, Washington, D.C.

A detailed account of the Omaha, Nebraska pedophile
scandal is contained in John DeCamp's important book. The
Franklin Cover-Up — Child Abuse, Satanism and Murder in
Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebr.: ATW, Inc., 1992).

In addition to its role in the Omaha satanism scandal and
the effort to prevent anti-satanic legislation in Texas, more
recently the ADL has been implicated in a kidnapping plot
directed by the Cult Awareness Network (CAN). Nominally a
group providing information and counseling to victims of cults,
CAN, a longtime ally of the ADL, has been identified in recent
court documents as engaging in nationwide kidnapping opera-
tions and using aversive behavior modification techniques on
their victims. Leading CAN associates were formerly associated
with US. government secret experimentation with psychedelic
drugs under the CIA's MK-Ultra project and other similar pro-
grams.

Chapter 9 The Best Government Dope Money
Can Buy

The July 1992 issue of Washington Report on Middle East
Affairs provided a detailed breakdown of the payments made
by the ADL and political action committees controlled by the
American-Israel Political Affairs Committee. That same maga-
zine published an article by Gregory Slabodkin detailing his
activities as an undercover dirty trickster for AIPAC Robert I.
Friedman's two-part series of articles published in The Village
Voice in August 1992 also provided further details about AI-
PAC s dirty tricks unit.

For another detailed study of ADL political dirty tricks, see
also Conspiracy Against Freedom; A Documentation of One

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Campaign of the Anti-Defamation League Against Freedom
of Speech and Thought in America by the staff of the Liberty
Lobby (Washington, D.C.: Liberty Lobby, Inc. 1986). This 228-
page report includes court documents and internal ADL memos
revealing interference in Federal Communications Commis-
sion-regulated broadcasting efforts of a group targetted by the
ADL.